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...charges developed from testimony delivered during July by Herbert A. Philbrick, an F.B.I. agent who operated incognito for nine years within the Communist party. Philbrick contended that Struik and Harry E. Winner of Malden, Mass, who also has been indicted, belonged to the same secret cell he belonged...
...Musa el Husseini, cousin of Jerusalem's exiled Mufti and Ph.D. of London and Berlin universities, lay in his Amman prison cell one night last week and talked about going to Argentina to become a farmer. He could not believe that Jordan would hang him and three others for plotting the murder of King Abdullah. For days telegrams had been pouring into Amman pleading and warning against carrying out the sentence of the military court...
Though action, and particularly rebellious action, went much against his grain, his friend St. Teresa of Avila enlisted him in her crusading reform of the Carmelite order. Anti-reform monks kidnaped and imprisoned him in a cell in Toledo's Carmelite priory for eight months, where he was taken out once a day to eat crusts and water on the refectory floor, and kneel while the monks tried to change his mind by walking in a circle around him, lashing his bare back with leather whips...
David Alfaro Siqueiros is as peppery as a dish of chili and Red as a matador's cape. A veteran revolutionary, he knows just about as much about gunpowder as he does about paint, and is almost as much at home in a cell as in a studio (he has been jailed 70 times). Also, he wields a big brush, ranks second in Mexican art only to his friendly enemy Diego Rivera. Last week Siqueiros' latest mural was unveiled in Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts, and it made a bang, as usual...
While the chaplain puzzles out his last words of comfort to Baranowski, he feels prickles of remorse tingling in the moral numbness around him. A cell guard speaks to the condemned man in kindly words, a clerk smothers an obscene joke, finally the lieutenant in charge of the firing squad offers to disobey his orders. The result, the chaplain sadly reminds him, would be the same: a more inhumane officer would take his place. "Do evil in order to avoid greater evil, is that what you're getting at?" asks the lieutenant. "Are we any better than the Kartuschkes...