Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Haggling & Higgling? Winston Churchill expressed Britain's growing unease. Said he in the House of Commons: "We now know that the Communists are killing U.N. soldiers, and our soldiers. We now know that they have established a reign of terror in China, with horrible executions and mob butcheries [see...
Died. Colonel General Vasily Vasilie-vich Ulrich, 62, who as presiding judge of the Moscow purge trials in the '305 teamed up with Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky to doom scores of erstwhile comrades, won for himself the tag of "Stalin's Executioner," the reputation of having pronounced more...
Czech officials snapped like kindling under the purge ax. After arresting former Foreign Minister Clementis as a "spy," Czechoslovakia's Red bosses went after his appointees. The Czech ambassador to India, Bohuslav Kratochvil, refused to go home, instead chose freedom in Britain (TIME, March 12). Less smart were three...
Other reported victims of the Czech purge:
Radcliffe Yard groundsmen have started an active campaign against bicycles on the lawn by removing them to an out-of-the-way bicycle rack on Brattle Street. Twenty-five girls have already been victims of this purge.