Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because he was a Nazi agent who poisoned the atmosphere," explained Assassin Frankfurter. "The bullets should have hit Hitler...
...conference, then back to Berne to make loud protests. Swiss Vice President & Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta had already sent an official letter of regret to Berlin, and the Swiss seemed cool to impassioned demands by Reichsführer Hitler's own newsorgan for the death sentence for the assassin. Maximum Swiss sentence for political murders is 15 years in jail. The canton of Grisons, where the crime was committed, long ago abolished the death penalty...
...Japanese occupation spread unopposed, like a ripple slowly widening out toward Peiping and Tientsin, consternation reigned in Nanking, capital of the Chinese Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek and Premier Wang Ching-wei who was recently winged by a would-be Chinese assassin (TIME, Nov. 11). Mr. Wang, hospitalized at Shanghai, had recovered sufficiently to set out for Nanking. On the way a plot to assassinate him was discovered. He abruptly resigned last week as Premier, hoping that Chinese patriots who have called him "pro-Japanese" will now let him alone...
...orgy of Chinese marksmanship a janitor and a onetime Minister of Justice fell, their winging being charged to the assassin. Everyone else's bullets hit nobody as nimble Chinese statesmen ran like rabbits and the Chinese militarists formed a hollow square around crumpled Wang...
Unfortunately the assassin's name turned out to be Sun, but he was said to be no relative of the Nanking Government's late, sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, leader of the revolution which upset the Imperial Manchu Throne in 1911. Last week's Sun was promptly branded a "Communist." Millions of Chinese considered him a patriot, hoped pro-Japanese Premier Wang was dying, regretted that Sun had not shot also China's pro-Japanese Kingpin, the Generalissimo...