Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany) of Britain's Lieut. General Sir Frederick Morgan. His reason: reorganization of UNRRA operations. Morgan was suspended from the same post last January for saying that clandestine organizations were helping Jewish refugees to escape from Poland; later he was reinstated. He recently charged that UNRRA is an "umbrella under which Soviet spies are working." The next day, General Joseph T. McNarney, U.S. commander in Europe, announced that one Russian UNRRA employe had just been arrested as a Soviet MGB (secret police) agent. The Russians had taken a violent dislike to Morgan. So, apparently, had LaGuardia...
...highly placed Allied military source," who had charged that UNRRA served as an "umbrella covering Russian secret agents and criminal elements engaged in wholesale dope-peddling and smuggling." Everyone hastily promised to help La Guardia investigate at once...
...Searching Wind. Robert Young and Sylvia Sidney in Lillian Hellman's angry film sermon against umbrella-carrying diplomats (TIME, July...
...Searching Wind. Robert Young and Sylvia Sidney in Lillian Hellman's angry film sermon against umbrella-carrying diplomats (TIME, July...
...week's revelry opened with a parade of 70,000 Afghan soldiers accoutered with German helmets and a weird assortment of old and new British matériel; above the parade wobbled a rickety umbrella of old Italian biplanes. Tribesmen who had lugged a season's karakul skins into market bet their season's earnings on horse races and ram fights. The Western influence was apparent in the gambling, too: the most popular gadget shot darts from an air gun at a moving disc...