Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Only a crash program on a "war footing" can do the trick-a program that slices through Indian love of paper-shuffling solutions and provides a "far-reaching, centralized authority with a clear line of command and execution."
Not Since MacArthur. By this time Castro was charming the American Society of Newspaper Editors, which in January invited him to its convention-luncheon (and noted last week that "the demand for tickets was the greatest since General MacArthur returned from the Far East"). In 15-minute answers, Castro criticized...
¶Execution of 493 "war criminals," mostly Batista cops and soldiers. Last week a firing squad executed a marijuana peddler as a "social benefit." Castro says illegal gambling, misappropriation of government funds and counter-revolutionary activities (effective political opposition) could bring the same penalty. Total effect is to make opposition...
A major Communist achievement: the execution last month of Captain José Castaño Quevedo, assistant head of Batista's Bureau for Communist Repression who had compiled a big card file of Cuban Communists and their activities. The file has disappeared.
Because Herter did serve under Dulles and, even as second in command, was little more than a cipher where policy was concerned, his personal attitudes on policy are very much an unknown quantity. Whatever actions he may pursue, however, the lessons of the past several months should be quite clear...