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...Dorothea Dix . . . would allow no asylum to be named for her. The only portrait of her that I recall hangs in Harvard Memorial Hall, in Cambridge, not far from the place where she first learned of the condition of the insane in 1841."- The American Mercury...
Before the hour expired, the Duce, who in his fustian prime had bellowed to his followers, "If I retreat, kill me!" was in headlong flight. At 9 p.m. he reached Como near the Swiss border. At 2 a.m. Thursday he sent an envoy to ask Swiss authorities to grant asylum to his wife, Donna Rachele, and their children. The Swiss emphatically declined. About 6 a.m. Mussolini sneaked northward presumably in the hope of reaching Germany. According to one report he joined a German truck convoy trying unsuccessfully to disguise himself in a German officer's overcoat. He was spotted...
Before the Japs came, life at the American Presbyterian Mission in Shanghai was tolerably peaceful. From across the fence drifted a medley of sounds: the shrill screams of a little Chinese girl whose feet were being bound for the first time; the cries in the Roman Catholic insane asylum ; the chatter of Seventh-Day Baptists; the heavy snores of the local opium addict...
Slaves & Skulls. In an insane asylum near Limburg they discovered a "murder factory" for "mercy killings." One of six in Germany, it had been set up for the disposal of unruly and overage slave laborers. Some 15,000 were gassed and cremated before nearby villagers complained of the polluted air. The next 5,000 were poisoned. SS men performed the daily executions. They celebrated their 10,000th killing, staffmen said, with a bacchanalian orgy, using the scoured skulls of victims as brandy flasks...
Reported Dead. Vaslav Nijinsky, 55, prodigious ballet dancer of 30 years ago, who was pronounced incurably insane in 1919 and confined in a Swiss asylum, released, in 1940 as being well on the way to recovery but refused entry to the U.S. for further treatment; under a Nazi policy of liquidating the insane (according to Swedish report); in Budapest...