Word: two
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial started two defendants short. Russian Orthodox Priest Vladislav Nekliudov, chief among the accused, had hanged himself with a bedsheet in his cell. One Alexander Krasilnikov, a former colonel in the Czarist army, was said by the court to be too ill to stand trial. Soviet, Hungarian and Bulgarian newspapers promptly cried that Tito had deliberately eliminated the two defendants, that the trial was fixed. To refute these charges, the Yugoslavs invited reporters to the bedside of ailing defendant Krasilnikov, who showed no evidence that Tito's police had maltreated him. Said he contentedly: "I was never...
...Trade Unions), were being excluded from the new organization. Reuther patched up this fight by a compromise: the Catholic unions (which are among the toughest anti-Communist fighters on the Continent) would be invited to come in, but would have to quit or disband their own international organization within two years...
...C.G.I.L., Italy's Communist-dominated Confederation of Labor, tried to stage a one-day general strike. Purported reason: to protest the deaths of two peasants who had tried to seize idle land and been killed in battles with police. The strike was an even more dismal flop than the walkout staged by Communists in France last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 5). The Italian strike stopped the steel and auto factories of the north; it was partly effective in the ports, and in urban transport systems. Nevertheless, millions of workers ignored the strike order. Instead of being paralyzed, Italy felt only...
Private Noel Moncaster, of the Royal Pioneer Corps stationed at Luneburg, had already had a drink or two too many when he spotted a seductive fraulein on a street corner. She invited him to a party and Noel accepted. That was in May 1947. Last week, lighter by 35 Ibs. and a good deal sadder & wiser, Private Moncaster reported back to British regimental headquarters in Berlin, to explain his long absence; the "party" had lasted two years and seven months...
...general contention that Peronistas were getting rich in office, and he did not list his own present wealth-or his wife's. But in attacking Cattáneo and the newspapers, Perón left little doubt that his final aim was to smash the last two citadels of a free press in Argentina and rid himself of every last vestige of opposition...