Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force and Britain's R.A.F. set new airlift records and doubled the general's goal. On Washington's Birthday they landed one plane every 90 seconds, flew 7,513 tons of supplies into besieged Berlin. Next day, learning that the Russians were celebrating Red Army Day, airmen stepped up their load again, roared in with 7,897 tons. Two days later, with their holiday momentum still intact, they brought in 8,025 tons...
Apparently Moscow, fearing anti-Communist speeches, sent orders to the Brussels comrades to make nuisances of themselves. When Churchill rose to address an open-air throng of 15,000 in front of the Brussels bourse, about 150 Red hecklers scattered through the crowd tried to drown him out with shouted insults, catcalls, whistles. Leaflets were circulated declaring that "Belgian workers would never take arms against their brothers in the Soviet Union and the people's democracies." The Brussels police, anticipating disturbance and well prepared for it, hustled off the troublemakers without difficulty. Churchill placidly smiled through the tumult with...
When it came his turn to speak, Belgium's Premier Paul-Henri Spaak told the comrades off. The Red hecklers, he said, were typical of the small pro-Soviet minority in Europe who, blindly obedient to a "foreign power," always tried to drown out the voice of the majority. The crowd roared approval...
...Red leaders of local unions blasted the Socialists with familiar Moscow invective: "Betrayers! Opportunists! Careerists!" then announced they would go ahead with the strike. Boss Narain promptly expelled the Communist locals from his federation...
...sort last week. Just 15 years ago Tacho's Guardia had cut down his old rival, Augusto Sandino. On the night of the anniversary, somebody scuttled across the runway at Managua's Xolotlán airfield to leave a memorial to the slain revolutionist: a bunch of red carnations, straw flowers and bougainvillea. At dawn, the fat tire of a Nicaraguan air force C46 rolled over the flowers, staining the black macadam with scarlet pulp at the spot where the Guardia is said to have buried Sandino...