Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Head Worth $300,000. In Seoul the revolutionaries set up an underground provisional government, named Rhee as first president in absentia. The Japanese began a bloody purge of the nationalists and put a price of $300,000 on Rhee's head. At a conference in Shanghai in 1920 the...
To intelligence men at Iron Curtain listening posts came telltale signs that the Kremlin's and-Jewish purge has descended on Communist Hungary, a country long notorious for its antiSemitism. Budapest made no strident announcement such as that which doomed Czechoslovakia's Rudolf Slansky et al. But from...
Died. Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis, 64, one of two Jews* holding top-ranking posts in the U.S.S.R.; reportedly of a heart attack. A longtime Stalin favorite, he was a veteran revolutionist, editor of Pravda, vice-commissar of defense, and army political commissar. As Commissar of State Control, Mekhlis was wartime production...
West Germany gave Dulles a chance to strengthen the skilled hand of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, whom Britain's Manchester Guardian haughtily calls "the best boy in the European class," because he so ardently supports the European Army. Dulles addressed himself to West Germans' principal fears: that military alliance...
"The politics of murder," as practiced by the Czech government at the Prague purge trials, will be the subject of a UN Council forum tonight.