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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist Party. For a couple of years he organized political support for Communist guerrillas in Macedonia, notwithstanding Stalin's promise to Churchill in 1944 that Greece would stay a British sphere in return for a British hands-off in the Balkans. With the outbreak of full-scale war between the guerrillas and the Greek army in 1947, Zachariades took to the hills. It was Zachariades' idea to kidnap thousands of peasant children and hold them hostages for the loyalty of their parents. When the U.S.-backed Greek army defeated the Communist partisans in 1949, Zachariades fled to Rumania...
...long period of time and on many fronts in the direction pointed by the conception of the world as an organic community, divided though it may now be by Soviet ambitions. This effort will call for the full use of our material, physical, and moral resources on a scale which the American people have not yet contemplated in times of peace. Working politicians and students of government both agree that the initiative for such a national commitment must come primarily from the executive...
Finally, as a corollary to these two points, we have come to recognize that the federal government must largely provide the initiative in discharging these newly defined governmental responsibilities, and that this in turn implies a "big" federal government operating on a scale which was undreamed of twenty-five years...
...theatres, one a small, workshop-type, the other a 1000-person structure for large-scale performances, would be the ideal arrangement for the University, according to Simonson. "Make no little plans," he said. "If they cannot be realized at once, make them ample enough, and realize them later...
...Socialist government trying to fight off the label of "war party." A month ago Premier Guy Mollet had offered the Algerian rebels a "last chance'' to lay down their arms, and the rebels had answered only with bullets. Last week France was buckling down to a full-scale war in Algeria...