Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current population of about 1,500,000 have now been evacuated; urged that Madrid be at once permitted to buy 200 motor busses from France to evacuate another 225,000; rejoiced that typhus has not broken out as had been expected in the besieged capital; advocated additional Red debusing. ¶ The French and the Turks, past masters of diplomacy, fenced delicately over what was now admitted in Geneva to be virtually a demand by Dictator Kama! Atatürk ("Father of the Turks") that France hand over to him from her Syrian mandate the sanjak (district) of Alexandretta, scene...
...Dictator Stalin's secret police, an unavoidable feature of diplomatic life in the Soviet capital. Meanwhile in Berlin the Soviet Ambassador Jacques Suritz, a Jew who by special dispensation of Der Führer is permitted to have Aryan housemaids (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935)> was throwing the biggest Red party of the year for Ambassador & Mrs. Davies and the Ambassador's 21-year-old daughter Emlen. The 50 pieces of Davies hand luggage and the 30 trunks were dispatched to the train by the Ambassador's two male secretaries (one a nephew...
Impressed, the customs officials bowed obsequiously when Ambassador Davies told them he had lost the Soviet permit enabling him to pass the frontier without having his luggage opened by Red customs guards. "That is quite unnecessary, Mr. Davies," beamed the Ogpu official, "in your case." Jouncing on for 15 hours to Moscow, Ambassador & Mrs. Davies were met by Soviet and U. S. Embassy officials in high hats and sleek great coats, shivering in 14-below-zero cold which would have made fur caps and untidy bearskins more comfortable. A dozen Red cameramen snapped the Davieses, and off they roared through...
Communist whose ashes lie buried by the Kremlin Wall with those of other Red heroes) and because Moscow thought he would turn out to be a Real Red, which he didn...
...belonged in Tsarist days to the Nobles Club, but this time in a less spacious chamber than the great "Hall of Columns"hitherto used (TIME, Aug. 31). In all the experience of Moscowite Walter Duranty he had never before seen the Soviet Supreme Court do business with other than red-cloth-covered tables but last week for the first time they were green-cloth-covered. As usual, the apple-cheeked Red Army soldiers with rifles and fixed bayonets mounting guard over the prisoners' box were changed every 30 minutes of the otherwise leisurely proceedings. There were the usual tall...