Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that same year, at dawn on the day before Passover, six Nazi tanks and a column of infantry moved into the Warsaw ghetto. They were making a routine roundup for the concentration camps and gas chambers. They penetrated as far as the ghetto's main street. Suddenly, windows and doorways erupted fire; from the housetops, grenades and gasoline were hurled on the tanks. The infantry were decimated; the tank crews burned alive...
...World Student Fund Relief Campaign swung into action today, reports and letters describing the reception of food overseas continued to arrive at th drive's headquarters. The letters come directly from the recipients of Harvard's donation of last spring, students in Athens, Peiping, Warsaw, Vienna and Salzburg...
...TLIman, recently returned from Warsaw, saw almost no foreign publications on the newsstands there except Russian magazines and newspapers. When he inquired about TIME'S four Polish subscribers in Warsaw (there are 20 others, all members of the U.S. Embassy staff or of American relief organizations), he found that one was a leader of the Socialist party who had left the country, another had died three months ago, the third was abroad, and the address of the fourth was a destroyed building...
...asked, did Poland's Urzad Bezpieczenstwa (secret police) waste money planting agents in the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw? Said Griffis: "There's nothing I tell my government I wouldn't tell you. . . . Why bother paying agents to read telegrams I'll gladly show you? But if you insist on spending money that way, why not have the U.B. hire me? I have more access to what information there...
...Gathering their satellites at a Warsaw conference, Russian Communists set up an organization called...