Word: slovakia
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Died. The Very Rev. Joseph Herman Hertz, 73, Slovakia-born, U.S.-educated, since 1913 Chief Rabbi of the British Empire's United Hebrew Congregations, pillar of orthodoxy and Zionism (a forest in Galilee was named for him); in London...
...differently anti-socialist U.S.S.R. In eastern Europe were millions who accepted governments friendly to Russia, yet welcomed a show of U.S. strength to break a Russian strangle hold. Contradictory doctrines lived side by side in the same countries, the same towns and even in the same individuals. (In Slovakia some Catholic priests were writing articles for Moscow's Pravda...
Death Revealed. Joseph Morton, 34. Associated Press correspondent; on Jan. 24 in a concentration camp at Mauthausen, Austria. Captured by the Germans last October when he flew into Slovakia with an Allied military mission, he was held for questioning, finally shot in the back-only war correspondent to be executed by the Nazis...
...Finally broke relations with Dr. Josef Tiso's quisling state of Slovakia, more than half of whose territory is already occupied by the Red Army...
Tolbukhin's tanks surged across the plains of western Hungary, captured the rail center of Szombathely, then outflanked the Nazi positions southeast of the shallow lake called the Sea of Vienna to plunge into the Austrian province of Burgenland. On both sides of the Danube and northward in Slovakia, Malinovsky's troops fought toward the Bratislava Gap and Vienna...