Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little more urgent than the peace bids they had made during the winter for propaganda purposes. Miltiades Porphy-rogenis, Minister of Justice in the rebels' "free" Greek government, cabled President Herbert Evatt of the U.N. General Assembly, appealing for a U.N.-negotiated settlement of Greece's civil war...
...come regularly to La Pipelette for information about her tenants. They are answered in direct ratio to the generosity of the tips Madame has received at rent-collecting time, at New Year's and for special services. Even the Paris police call on her for information. During the war the Resistance used the concierge as a perfectly positioned spy. Allied airmen shot down over France were passed safely across Paris from one concierge to another till they found a chance to escape...
Four years after war's end, Soviet Russia still keeps more than a million German and Japanese in her slave labor camps. Not all of them were taken as prisoners of war; many are civilians, including women taken from Eastern Germany. Little is known in the West about their fate; only an occasional carefully phrased postcard message reaches their families. But some have been released, and in its current issue the British Medical Journal published a memorable report on how such prisoners fare...
Away from war-clogged roads, but within earshot of the thump of collapsing bridges, China's peasants worked their land in immemorial rhythm. Across fields heavy with the smell of dung, water buffalo pulled ancient wooden plows. Civil war had hardly touched this part of China before. "We are a peace-loving, obedient people," said one old woman. "We are not rich. We want only to do our work. Will the Communists hurt...
Alberto Dodero laid a course toward the big time when as a young man he moved from Montevideo to Buenos Aires and added to the family business a freighter bought on credit. He quickly gathered headway. At the end of World War I, with a credit of $10 million, he got 148 surplus U.S. ships, resold them at a handsome profit. Then he bought into the Mihanovich Line in his adopted Argentina, owned it 15 years later. By World War II, Dodero had over 300 ships, plus a choice assortment of real estate and other properties. In 1944, his war...