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...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...
...guessing; a neat variation on the secret ballot is to cast a vote "manifestly and openly" within clear sight of everyone at the polls. The P.P.R. (Communists) had formed its zealous members into trojki (trios) who had covered the country "inducing" voters to sign a pledge stating: "I commit myself to go to the elections and give my vote to the list of the [Government] bloc parties. I am a real democrat and I am seeking a real democratic Poland. I will vote openly...
...nearly six years, oldtimers on the News Leader have been hammering it into me that a "burglary" is "the forcible breaking and entering of a dwelling house in the night time, with intent to commit a felony therein," and I in turn have been hammering it into the cubs. Now comes TIME and undoes a lot of hard work. Some of the newcomers have been waving the Dec. 30 Miscellany column under the copydesk's nose and pointing to the line about "burglars" tunneling into the Clayton (Okla.) State Bank. The persons who swiped those 33,300 pennies were...
...Oklahoma Statutes of 1942, Sect. 1931, which says: "Every person who breaks and enters any building or any part of a building, room, booth, tent, railroad car, automobile, truck, trailer, vessel, or other structure or erection in which any property is kept, with intent to steal therein or to commit any felony, is guilty of burglary in the second degree...
...majority in Congress, his efforts had produced few results. With the G.O.P. in the driver's seat he could expect to be even less effective in guiding the Congress. About the best course he could set lay along the line of middle-of-the-road generalities which would commit the Democratic Executive as lightly as possible...