Word: slavs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Draja Mihailovich).* His new revolutionary nom de guerre is variously explained as derived from: 1) the initials of Tajna Internacionalna Terroristicka Organizacija (Secret International Terrorist Organization); 2) St. Titus, a convert from paganism who, it is believed, also did missionary work in the Balkans; 3) a legendary 13th-Century Slav warrior called Tito, who is reported to have killed more Mongols than anyone else in his time...
Behind the thin camouflage of a pseudo-liberal constitution and a National Front Government, Proconsul Tito shaped the government of the South Slav lands into a model Communist police state. His NKVD-trained secret police force, OZNA (Committee for the Protection of the People), together with the Partisans, has liquidated an estimated 200,000 people and imprisoned an estimated 100,000. It has established agents in all Balkan countries and Italy. OZNA is headed by able, notoriously cruel Lieut. General Alexander ("Marko") Rankovich, 35, former journeyman tailor and veteran Communist...
...Packing, in Moscow, to attend an all-Slav Congress in Manhattan next month: Alexander Yevdokimovich Korneichuk and his wife, Colonel Wanda Wasilewska of the Red Army. He is one of Russia's leading dramatists (Front, Death of a Squadron, Truth) and a member of the Supreme Soviet; she is a former Polish (now Soviet) novelist (The Rainbow), head (during the war) of the Union of Polish Patriots in Russia...
...simple question was Austria: a country of 32,000 square miles and 7,000,000 inhabitants, stretching from the edge of the Slav lands across the heart of Europe to within a hundred miles of the French frontier. It was a country whose life was drawn & quartered by four jealously sealed occupation zones, whose economy was nearly dead, whose hungry, tired people were nearly hopeless. To a world heavy with sorrow, it was a country whose very misery seemed unimportant, except in terms of the great struggle between Russia and the West...
Sired by Failure. Poor, proud, tough and relatively small, the packinghouse union was born in 1937 of the repeated failures of the A.F. of L. and independent unions to wring concessions from the "Big Four" packers (Swift, Armour, Cudahy & Wilson). At the core of its membership are Negro/Irish, Slav and Mexican knockers, hog-splitters, blood-catchers and miscellaneous workers who do the hard, dangerous, foul-smelling labor in the huge packing plants...