Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...navy to help them hurdle the moat that surrounds the island. But Chiang could not count on the loyalty of Formosa's people, disgusted by Nationalist carpetbaggers who rushed to Formosa after the war's end. Probably the greatest threat facing the Nationalists on Formosa was Red fifth-column tactics within the island stronghold...
...people of Red-encircled West Berlin should be helped out of their present economic plight, brought into the closest possible relations with West Germany. ¶The West Germans must not be allowed to wiggle out of Allied security safeguards, e.g., they will not be allowed to have even commercial airplanes, or to form cartels...
...several others wounded. The police charged that the squatters started the fight, with gunfire and hand grenades; two carabinieri were seriously wounded. The carabinieri blamed the Communists, and the Communists, eager to make political capital from the peasants' discontent, promptly replied that all the Melissa casualties were indeed Red martyrs...
Madam Ambassador Eugenie Anderson, 40, of Red Wing, Minn.-the first woman Ambassador in U.S. history-sailed from New York to take up her post in Copenhagen, Denmark. With her went Johanna, 15, Hans, 11, and Husband John, who was proud not only of his wife's big new job, but of his own small triumph over bureaucracy. At first the State Department, which pays the overseas passage of Ambassadors' wives, ruled that since there had never before been any dealings with an Ambassador's husband, he would have to pay his own way. Anderson kept demanding...
...know-how they almost made up for in energy and imagination. Joseph Hirsch's Journey-an old man and a boy on a burro-looked as if it had been painted with mud from under the back stoop, and its only hint of Christmas was the sharp red of a couple of poinsettias in the boy's hand. But the red, contrasted with the dirty gloom of the rest of the picture, was enough; it made Journey one of the most moving canvases in the show. Edmund Lewandowski had chosen the Three Kings for a subject, and turned...