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...masterpiece of yellow journalism and a breach of every code of decency I know...
Colonel Masao Kusunose, 58, was about to be tried by the Allies. On New Britain, in 1942, he had authorized the bayoneting of 140 Australian prisoners. But the Colonel, according to his peculiar code, was a man of honor; for him there was only one possible course: suicide. He could not commit hara-kiri because his samurai saber had been confiscated by the enemy. Death by drowning or jumping in front of a train would be improper. He decided to end his life by starvation and exposure (the weather was sub-zero...
Auriol's first act was to hand the task of forming a government to tufted Paul Ramadier, a Socialist, who had been Minister of Food in 1944 and more recently Minister of Justice. Ramadier's manner is so retiring that in the Resistance he was given the code name of "Violet...
Said Republicans: Bilbo has violated the Constitution, the Hatch Act, the Criminal Code...
Exit from Peenemünde. Greatest technical triumph of Nazi Germany was the V-2 rocket, prototype of the guided missiles which may dominate future wars. The V-2 project (code name "E.W.," for Elektromechanische Werke) was pushed with all the secrecy and urgency which surrounded the U.S. "Manhattan District." The rockets were developed and tested at Peenemünde on the Baltic, and manufactured in a vast underground factory at Nordhausen, east of Kassel...