Word: zone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Both agreed that it was in the interest of U. S. policy to promote a strong western bloc as the only answer to Russian activities in the Soviet sector of the German zone...
...increasing number of fugitives were bursting out from behind the Iron Curtain with their clothes on fire. They were of two general kinds-Germans fleeing from the crushing caresses of their new Soviet masters; Soviet citizens fleeing from Russia. During August, 100,000 Soviet Zone Germans tried-about half of them successfully-to cross into the U.S. zone. Among them were some bigwigs...
...guards had been doubled. Berlin saw a typical tragedy. When young Red Army Senior Lieut. Alexis Kovalev was ordered back to Russia, he slashed his wrists. But he was rushed to one of Berlin's American hospitals and recovered. He pleaded for help to get to the U.S. zone. Because of a U.S.Russian agreement to return each other's soldiery, his pleas were vain. When Red Army MPs came for him, Kovalev fought until they clapped a strait jacket on him. Hospital attendants last saw him in a Red Army ambulance beating his head against the side panels...
Another Russian runaway was Georgian-born Lieut. General Gulishvili. Chief intelligence officer in the Soviet zone of Austria, Gulishvili skipped from Vienna in August and stopped off in Paris. Last week, when he was safely en route to South America, France-Soir published his answers to some pertinent questions. Most pertinent...
...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...