Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, a grim, ironic joke in Russia that the vast hinterland conceals numberless prison camps, slave-labor projects, and an abysmally low standard of living among all but party people. These were experts in that kind of concealment, and they laughed appreciatively at Bulganin's easy reference to the "vast territories in which, if desired, one can conceal anything." But it was a guffaw all too reminiscent of Vishinsky's famous blunder ("I could hardly sleep all last night . . . because I kept laughing," said Vishinsky of U.S. peace proposals in 1951). Newsmen spread the story across the world...
...under the Refugee Relief Act of 1953. "We come with gratitude," said Hans Freer, 34, one of 1,243 refugees aboard the chartered U.S. Navy transport General Langfitt. Freer's arrival with his family amounted to a near miracle of deliverance : his wife had been a Soviet slave laborer, he was buffeted about Europe by Nazis and Communists for 15 years, and for a time it seemed unlikely that many refugees would ever reach the U.S. under the 1953 relief act. Last week, after a slow start, the program was rolling...
...second proof of Russian sincerity would be the reunification of Germany as a sovereign democratic state-neither "neutralized" nor satellite. A third proof would properly be the honoring of Soviet commitments, taken at Yalta, to permit self-determination in the Balkan states and Poland, and emancipate those unhappy slave states. If Russia satisfied these three preconditions, said Dulles, then the West would ease its pressure...
...work at the house of Prince Abdullah Feisal. Long months went by and one day I learned that Mohammed Ali had returned to Africa. The prince ordered me to come before him and told me that I was no longer a free man but had been sold as a slave. Several years later, the prince ordered his overseer to sell me in the slave market of Jidda. I was taken there in a truck. I entered a large, obscure hall. There were many men and women gathered there-slaves like myself. I managed to escape . . . Several times I tried...
...Arabia I saw many slaves of my race. There are slave markets in all the big towns there. The slave traffic starts at sundown. The big chiefs examine us and select those they want, just like at a camel fair. You can buy a man like me for a pinch of gold." Ex-Slave Awad El Goud is only one of many French African Moslems who have been kidnaped into slavery as pilgrims to Mecca. Last week his story was told in Paris by Emmanuel La Graviére, Calvinist minister and Assemblyman of the French Union. "In the course...