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Voltaire and the Calas Case, by Edna Nixon. Voltaire's memory is well served in this account of how the great skeptic roused Europe against France's execution of an innocent Huguenot.
As dawn rose over Paris early one morning last week, a volley of rifle shots echoed through dank, grim Ivry Fort. Dead before the firing squad sank ex-Lieut. Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry, 35, convicted ringleader of last summer's abortive attempt to assassinate Charles de Gaulle in...
Hirasawa has applied for a new trial, but his application has no legal staying force on the order of execution. To focus attention on his case, Hirasawa's supporters arranged for an exhibition of 50 of the 480 tempera paintings that he has turned out in his 15 years...
Item. About two weeks elapsed between de Gaulle's threat to blackball British entry into the Common Market and the execution of that threat. During this interval, Washington let it be known in Bonn that a delay in the ratification of the Franco-German Pact would be welcome to the...
Hitler offered the people of Germany a short cut to human progress. He gained power by advocating human rights for minority groups. Under his plan, the Constitutional rights of the people were destroyed. The proposal to take from you the right to deal with your local problems in a way...