Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gomulka asked Zawadzki. Said the General (who received his training in Russia): "It is easy to get 50,000; I have only to summon the Army and security police. When you increased the number to 100,000, I announced that Mr. Mikolajczyk [chief opposition leader] would speak. After you mentioned 150,000, I told the people that General Anders [antiCommunist expatriate] would address them. However, when you finally instructed me to get 200,000, I announced that at the meeting all members of the Government would be publicly hanged...
Hooton to Speak...
...While more than 200 Soviet warplanes swooped overhead, cavalry clattered and giant tanks clanked. The militant note was also struck by Ilya Ehrenburg, one of the Soviet Government's snappiest journalistic terriers. In Pravda, he gave the official text for the day: the U.S. Government does not speak for the American people. Even while the parade is taking place, cried Ilya, "the imperialists with their criminally aggressive plans [are] dreaming of plunging humanity into a sanguinary whirlpool of a new war. . . . Americans carry an atom bomb in one pocket and an Easter egg in the other. Against...
...fire." The Arab delegations repeatedly wandered from the procedural debate to demand immediate freedom of Palestine as an Arab state. Zionist leaders writhed, but since they had no official status, could not answer. (This week the Assembly decided that the Jewish Agency for Palestine should be allowed to speak before the Assembly's Political and Security Committee, which includes all 55 of the United Nations...
Haiti's Marbial section was almost ideal for the experiment. Of its 26,000 inhabitants, three out of four can neither read nor write. They speak a Creole dialect of French, live in thatched huts with dirt floors, suffer from worms, decaying teeth, malaria and tuberculosis. A UNESCO expert, armed with films, books, posters and phonograph records, will work with a Haitian Government team to teach the fundamentals of hygiene, flood control, modern agriculture, the three Rs. UNESCO will pass on what it learns to teams in Asia, Africa, South America...