Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Japanese, shocked by Communist violence, thought the general's action overdue. "Well, MacArthur lost his temper at last," said a maritime union leader. "I would have lost my temper, too, at that Red gang." Occupation officials were pleased that MacArthur had neutralized Communist leadership without driving the party...
The Communists, who had expected eventually to be outlawed as a party, were surprised both at the suddenness and the form of MacArthur's edict. They appointed a new eight-man control group and called in vain for a general strike. They ground out denunciations of the purge. Japanese...
...nowhere to be seen or heard was the top purgee, Secretary General Kyuichi Tokuda. Equally elusive were the usually vocal Ritsu Ito, ousted Communist theorist and spokesman, and Yoshio Shiga, leading party advocate of violent action, whose "tough" policy had brought on the MacArthur order. From shrewd, slippery Sanzo Nozaka, pre-purge chairman of the Japanese Politburo, came only ironic speculation. Said Nozaka: "Now that I have so much time on my hands ... I may try to become a movie critic. Or else, now that summer is here, perhaps I can start an ice candy [Japanese Popsicle] shop...
While Czechoslovakia seems to be working with clumsy stealth toward a purge of all non-Communist correspondents, Bulgaria openly bars all Western newsmen. Rumania is still tighter; it does not even admit Communist reporters from Hungary. No Western correspondents are welcome in Soviet-occupied Eastern Germany either, except on special...
Last week 37-year-old Vladimir Houdek, fallen from favor and apparently facing a Moscow-style purge trial back home, announced a discovery: Soviet Russia had robbed Czechoslovakia of her independence. Houdek sent his $1,100 passage money back to the Czech delegation and issued a long statement of resignation...