Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Principal Events: Ten years of stalemate had set Greek nerves on edge, and Hero Achilles quarreled at last with King Agamemnon over a slave girl. Thereafter, while his countrymen lost battle after battle, Achilles sulked in his tent. Disaster threatened. Patroclus, the hero's friend, drove the Trojans back to their gates, but was killed by Hector, who then led a charge that nearly hurled the frightened Greeks into the sea. Forth then Achilles to avenge his friend. The heroes met, and Hector was killed. Achilles himself died at the hand of Paris, whose arrow found his heel...
...THINK there is a very definite and distinct limit to what this country can charge its taxpayers over an extended period. I think that it gets right back into what makes a democracy tick, and into what is the difference between a free country and a slave state...
Germany only momentarily happy. Last week, as perhaps the last installment of prisoners came back from Soviet slave camps, Adenauer got his Russian: 53-year-old Valerian Aleksandrovich Zorin, first Soviet Ambassador to West Germany...
...Legal Mind. In Munich, after he was sentenced to a three-day jail term or a 15-mark ($4.70) fine in 1952 for illegal fishing, Robert Adler spent a day in jail and then disappeared, got picked up by the Russians and shipped to Vorkuta slave labor camp for three years, was collared by Berlin authorities when he finally returned, forced to pay the 10-mark balance of his fine...
...Ivan Maisky, Russia's Assistant Foreign Minister, on the future of postwar Germany. Maisky insisted upon 1) dismemberment of Germany, 2) dismantling of German industry to 25% of its previous productive capacity, 3) deportation to Russia of 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 German men and women slave laborers for perhaps ten years. "It was the Russians' hope," Harriman concluded dryly,, "that this experience . . . should be handled in such a way as to re-educate the Germans. If they showed signs of becoming more reasonable in their attitude, greater freedom and a fuller life might be provided...