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...surprise that South Korean police are as savagely inhuman as their bloodbrothers fighting in the ranks of the North Korean army. Many of them undoubtedly were tutored in Japanese police methods before the liberation in 1945 . . . And let us be frank about it; all Orientals are alike in their contempt for human life and dignity. They are cruel where we have pity; they are brutal where we show compassion; they are ingratiating to those they fear or think superior, but merciless with the weak or inferior who fall into their hands...
...propaganda. Now he introduced two more, one denouncing "the unprovoked, barbaric attacks" of U.S. planes on China, and the other, "monarcho-fascist terrorism in Greece." With savage suavity, Jebb labeled these two items for what they were, Jebb called Malik's charge of U.S. aggression a document "beneath contempt, except for its only obvious use, namely, its distribution as a propaganda leaflet." Of Malik's resolution on Greece, Jebb said: "For the representative of a country which maintains millions of its own compatriots in slave labor camps ... to denounce other governments for alleged misdemeanors as regards political prisoners...
...House cited 56 persons for contempt of Congress. All of them had refused to answer questions put to them by the Un-American Activities Committee in the past year. Thirty-nine were Hawaiians who defied questions asked by committeemen during an on-the-scene investigation of Communism in the territory; four were scientists who worked on atomic bomb projects; the others were various Reds and officials of the Red-run United Electrical Workers Union, including Julius Emspak and James Matles. Conviction may bring $1,000 fine, a year in jail...
Giannini argued that the FRB had known of the deal for months, and should not have waited until the last minute to object. The federal court thought differently: it convicted Giannini and Transamerica President Sam H. Husbands of contempt, ordered them to jail within 30 days and their companies each to pay fines of $2,500 a day unless the sale was called...
Down with the Jury! The common practice in dealing with a jury in disagreement, writes Author Bernard O'Donnell, Fleet Street crime reporter, was to load its members into a cart and haul them around the city "so that a jeering populace could express their contempt for men so heedless of their duties as citizens." All in all, readers who still think that King John's Magna Carta brought a fairly modern sense of justice into British courts will have their eyes opened by Author O'Donnell's blood-curdling history of Old Bailey...