Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand international "partisans of peace" descended on Moscow's Dom Soyuzov (House of Trade Unions) last week. Before a red plush backdrop bearing giant portraits of Lenin and Stalin, they acted out a Kremlin command performance of a familiar comedy...
...same old cast was on hand. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Red Dean of Canterbury, proudly fondled the immense gold cross dangling on his chest-a cherished gift from the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei. "To talk of peace in the Soviet Union," said the Dean sanctimoniously, "is like bringing one's samovar to Tula."* Italy's table-thumping left-wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni furiously denounced the Atlantic pact as an instrument of war, shouted that President Truman was "a pocket-sized Napoleon . . ." The U.S. was represented by party-lining Negro educator Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Germany by America...
...advancing government troops hand-to-hand. At nightfall, as a weird calm settled over the battlefields, U.N. observers spotted the dimmed lights of Albanian truck convoys moving up & down from the border, carrying off the wounded and bringing in reinforcements. Outside a Greek headquarters tent sat forlorn groups of Red prisoners awaiting interrogation. One of them, a former member of the Greek seamen's union, told of his odyssey. He had been recruited by the Communists in France, then shipped on to join the rebels via Prague and Yugoslavia. "What could I do? I had no money...
...first phase of the Communist offensive in Finland was over. The Reds' carefully timed barrage of successive strikes had so far failed to paralyze the country's economy or to intimidate Premier KarlAugust Fagerholm's tough Social Democratic government. But the fight was not over. For the second phase of their drive, the Red strategists had held back some important reserves: Finland's 55,000 metalworkers...
...sleepy village of Manchester, Vt. (pop. 325) sat up and took notice last week. White-haired ladies from porch rockers of the Equinox House, straw-hatted farmers, Green Mountain tourists and artists by the station-wagonload jammed into the red brick gymnasium where the Southern Vermont Artists' Association was staging its 20th annual show...