Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Success one day last week, Assistant Secretary of State Willard Thorp* announced that, by official U.S. estimate, Russia keeps between eight and 14 million people in slave labor camps. Semen Tsarapkin, Russia's representative to ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council), coolly ignored the charge; no one else seemed to care either. The world had read too many statistics of death and misery...
...time or other sat in on the sessions. When they were done, A.F.L. and C.I.O. leaders were called in to have a look at it. After all, Harry Truman had made a campaign promise to labor-to kill the Taft-Hartley law, which the unions had branded the "slave labor law." The union men looked over Truman's new bill, and didn't like the provision for federal injunctions, in strikes affecting the national welfare. Harry Truman ordered it out. The union leaders went away happy, with what amounted to an improved Wagner Act. C.I.O. General Counsel Arthur...
...would be idle to pin labels on these people, call them "democrats." They are no more than families in flight. Doctors and lawyers, Zeiss technicians and garage mechanics, slave miners and girls tired of being raped in Soviet mess halls-they have nothing in common but their flight from evil and terror, from the lie and the lash. Down their dark, narrow corridor they come, heading, half drunk with fear, toward a single, small light...
...should a man waste his talents on the obvious? He seemed never to leave out a leaf or twig, and since he insisted on making himself such a slave to nature, wasn't it too bad he'd had no camera? The paintings, it appeared to some visitors, provided no more food for thought than the color photos in a resort folder...
...months a torrent of science propaganda has sluiced from Moscow's presses. Murky with Marxist doubletalk, it praises Soviet science, denounces Western science as the tool of capitalism and the slave of doctrinal errors, such as "idealism" and "formalism." Along with the orchids for Russia and brickbats for the West go long polemic discourses on such subjects as genetics and quantum mechanics. Most of it is far above the heads of the Russian (or any other) general public...