Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, in the jungles of Malaya, was one Communist recently rendered "politically reliable" by his own comrades, the British army command in Malaya learned last week. There were other evidences of a widespread purge and toughening of the hard-pressed guerrilla forces. British High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer's...
Much of what the Communists have wrought in China was begun before them by the revolution of Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kaishek; the Communists simply stole the revolution by deceit and mutiny while the country struggled against Japan. That power could not have been won without the carefully measured...
Russia's No. 3 Communist, the party's Central Committee Secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev, turned 60 and got enough tokens of Premier Georgy Malenkov's favor to suggest that he was riding high above any threat of purge: the Order of Lenin, the Hammer & Sickle Gold Medal...
Because many Yugoslavs are either unable or unwilling to live up to the new austerity, the Tito party during the last 16 months has dropped some 70,000 comrades from its rolls as "no longer able to meet obligations relevant to party organization." The wholesale firings, described by party officials...
This purge produced a hubbub on the Catholic intellectual left that for a while drowned out the clamor over the worker-priests themselves. One Catholic review hinted that "the influence of Cardinal Spellman and his friend McCarthy" was responsible. In another Catholic journal, a priest wrote that "we are not...