Word: slaves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jebb called Malik's charge of U.S. aggression a document "beneath contempt, except for its only obvious use, namely, its distribution as a propaganda leaflet." Of Malik's resolution on Greece, Jebb said: "For the representative of a country which maintains millions of its own compatriots in slave labor camps ... to denounce other governments for alleged misdemeanors as regards political prisoners is just about as nauseating a spectacle as that of Satan rebuking...
Shirley May France, 18, decided that her "slave-driving father" was just as tough to take as the English Channel, upped & left her home in Somerset, Mass. to move in with her swimming coach, Harry Boudikian, 35, and his wife Elsie. When father France threatened to go to court to get her back, she went to stay with some school chums in Fall River, but assured the press that she was through with swimming forever: "From now on, my favorite sport is softball...
...creatures," declared Mark Twain, "there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate...
...world's highest-paid musicians, Paul Robeson had traveled far from the house in Princeton, NJ. where he was born the son of a runaway slave. But he wasn't satisfied with his progress in the U.S.; 16 years ago, he went all the way for Moscow, and decided that Negroes had a better chance of advancing under the Commies. For the last three years, in London, Moscow, Paris, Manhattan, he had faithfully slandered the Atlantic pact, the Marshall Plan, the U.S. defense of Korea-shouting, all the while, for Soviet-style "peace...
...April 1947 Russia agreed to repatriate all German P.W.s by the end of 1948. But she has kept many-presumably for slave labor, Communist indoctrination, or both. Russia claims that she holds only 13,546 German prisoners. Yet 90,000 Germans still in Soviet hands have written to their families, and returning prisoners have given the names of some 300,000 others still in the U.S.S.R. The Western powers believe that there are also 350,000 Japanese prisoners still in Russian hands...