Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Others See. In best holdup style, Clerk Joseph Braunspiegel had just been ordered to the small toilet in the rear of the store, when two unsuspecting customers walked in. They were A. D. Voina, Ukrainian delegate to the United Nations, and Gregory Stadnik, a minor delegation adviser. The thugs promptly backed them up against a shelf full of Ritz crackers, Sun Crown prunes and Bernice Fruit Mix. One of the thugs fired the shot that was heard around the world; it caught Stadnik in the thigh bone...
Sneered the Soviet news agency, Tass: "[New York papers] seek to present the attack as usual for the New York way of life. However . . . the attempt was of a political character. . . ." Snarled Ukrainian Chief Delegate Dmitri Manuilsky: "Political banditry. . . . If the authorities cannot protect us, either it will be necessary to have our own agents . . . or maybe to pay income tax to somebody like Al Capone for protection. . . ." In a bristly letter to Secretary of State Byrnes, Manuilsky charged a "premeditated attempt" on the two men's lives...
...book is filled with the stench of dead horses and dead men rotting on the vast Ukrainian plain. Malaparte was in Jassy on the night of the pogrom when 7,000 Jews were killed in the streets. He was allowed to visit the Warsaw brothels whose girls the Germans killed after a short period to replace them with fresh victims. There are chilling pictures of the Warsaw ghetto...
After debating at length a Soviet Ukrainian Proposal to include Europe as a possibility for the temporary or permanent headquarters of the United Nations., the 14-man committee voted it down 7 to 2, with Russia and the Ukraine alone favoring it. Three committeemen abstained...
...Soviet officer who went home to his small Ukrainian town after four years in the Army found his house destroyed and his family scattered. After reassembling the remnants of his family, he asked the town authorities for a house. They gave him a slip of paper entitling him to buy an ax and showed him on a map a 100-square-yard plot in a forest near the town. "Make yourself a house," they said. The officer went back to Berlin...