Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were three possibilities: 1) they had been pressed into slave labor in Siberia; 2) they were being held in Soviet hands to make sure that the U.S. could never use them in a war against Russia; 3) they were being held for use by the Russians themselves, either as a fifth column for Japan or as mercenary shock troops. The Soviet failure to repatriate Japanese prisoners was clearly a violation of the Potsdam Agreement. General Mac-Arthur had offered ships and aid to bring the missing Japanese home. But negotiations had broken down when the Russians refused to discuss...
...Summarily rejected Russia's bid to fortify the Dardanelles (and thus bring Turkey within its orbit of slave states...
Dunbar says he resolved to lead a U.S. symphony orchestra when he was a boy in British Guiana, the great-grandson of a slave. Says he: "I knew I would. I believe I am psychic...
When at last the Assembly met to vote, Port-au-Prince lay uneasy under the military. Then the rulers of the only country ever to see a successful Negro slave rebellion quickly elected Dumarsais Estimé, an old-line elite politician, to be President of Haiti for the next five years...
...Sunday school prize little Catharine Mabie won a booklet which told the pathetic story of an African slave girl. From that time forward, it was her ambition to bring Christianity to Africa's heathen. Under the auspices of the Baptist missions society, she set out in 1898 to fight fever and fetish in the Belgian Congo...