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...Pistol-One Ammunition. The strangest fugitives were the Ukrainians. For international purposes, such as gatherings of the U.N., the Soviet Union treats the Ukrainian republic ts an independent state. But some Ukrainians have been trying to throw off the Soviet yoke since 1918. A group of Ukrainian partisans under a 25-year-old leader named Lakhidnya had fought their way to the U.S. zone last summer. Since then, they have been filtering through in small detachments. They cannot be classed as D.P.s. So the somewhat baffled U.S. military authorities have interned them in a barracks in Bavaria...
...force, or conquering through love), the only proper way of life. In the whitewashed, DDT-ed compound which serves him as headquarters, Gandhi licked his soul wounds: "I feel [India's violence] is just an indication," he told his followers, "that as we are throwing off the foreign yoke, all the dirt and froth is coming to the surface. When the Ganges is in flood the water is turbid...
...France's North African possessions, and the most "assimilated" to French culture, there is an independence movement too. Fiery, 54-year-old Messali Hadj, Algerian Arab nationalist, toured the restless Kabylie district in March, repeated in village after village: "For 116 years we have been under the French yoke. Still we sleep on the ground, we wear only a simple gandourah, we walk barefoot, and most of us go three or four days without eating a piece of cake...
...guests that evening at the pot-roast supper in the basement of the Methodist Church-all the place would hold. Miss Lizzie, who used to be superintendent of the Sunday school, sat in the guest of honor's chair in her best black crepe dress with the beaded yoke, and an orchid, her first...
...people, all manner of counterrevolutionary Trotskyites, Bukharinites and other traitors and capitulators. . . . It is common knowledge that. . . Britain and the United States launched their biggest [military] operations only after . . . it had become clear that the Soviet Army was able to ... liberate the peoples of Europe from the German fascist yoke . . . without Allied assistance...