Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Assuming the offer genuine, it represented a major concessio−and comedown−by E.O.K.A. In Athens it was described as giving the British a chance to save face. In London it was seen as vindication of Harding's stern policy of military repression of terrorism. E.O.K.A., said the British, had been sobered both by its losses of men and material and by the fact that the Greek Cypriot populace, which once gave E.O.K.A. almost unanimous approval, has been increasingly distressed by bombings, riots and curfews. (In the past few weeks several Greek Cypriots, including an ex-member...
Victim No. 3 proved to be almost more trouble than he was worth: Mazurkiewicz was seen disposing of the body. But influential friends in the prosecutor's office intervened, and witnesses gladly changed their testimony under duress. Mazurkiewicz grandly threw a huge party for the prosecutor, police and witnesses in his handsome apartment−partly with the 225,000 zlotys lifted from Victim...
...commentary, held up best under the week's strain. His biggest coup: getting Ave Harriman inside the fishbowl to exchange blessings with Estes Kefauver on a split-screen hookup (denounced as "electronic fakery" by rival ABC). CBS's seasoned twosome of Ed Murrow and Eric Severeid was seen only fleetingly, bantering the big picture with the casualness of network executives at a ball game...
...Sunday Sam Young-Harry was nonetheless impressed: "We have seen this whole country in its absolute nakedness. We were free to see good and bad alike. We were not on any guided tours such as those that are given behind the Iron Curtain. In addition to the very great deal we have learned professionally, we have developed a. tremendous respect for this country...
Other parts of the diary record episodes in the war, seen as if by the brief, brilliant light of a phosphorous flare. A comrade dies before an SS firing squad; the Germans try to drive Hypnos' detachment out of hiding by burning a forest; and, in a two-line episode, there is the soldier who, "between the two shots that decided his fate, had time to call a fly 'Madam...