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Dreadful Distortion
Last week Pierre Laval came to judgment. With him came none of the dreadful pity, the sense of terrible duty that had been in every Frenchman's heart during the trial, death sentence and commutation to life imprisonment, of old Marshal Henri Pétain. The elimination of Pierre...
There was, in dreadful truth, such a thing as the atom bomb. But strategists went on planning armies and navies as if it did not exist. Diplomats bickered away without ever mentioning it. To plain people it was a horror shoved in the back of the mind on the vague...
Cavaliers & Conquests. Time was, before the dreadful war, when Edda Ciano had been anything but an ordinary woman. Then she was numbered among a rare group of sirens, Italian and German, who wooed Roman society for Hitler and the Axis.
In September's Ladies' Home Journal, Columnist Dorothy Thompson reported: "I asked an old friend who served 20 months in the dreadful death house of Mauthausen, issuing from it half mummy and half man: 'Who behaved best among the inmates? Businessmen? Intellectuals? What race? What political parties...