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No Change in Plan. To replace U Nu as Premier, the league named 40-year-old Defense Minister U Ba Swe (rhymes with hay), known to his friends as Kyagi-"The Big Tiger." (The nickname, according to a wifely indiscretion, derives not only from the fact that he was born...
Unhallowed Ground. As Harding prepared for the first political execution in Britain's 78-year island rule, 400,000 Cypriots mounted a death watch. Behind shuttered doors Nicosia waited as Father Antonios, head priest of Archbishop Makarios' palace chapel, went to give the doomed pair the Holy Sacraments...
After the House of Commons voted to outlaw the death penalty, Britain's Chief Hangman Albert Pierrepoint, 45, quit the job that has been in his family for 85 years and turned his strong, steady hand to his memoirs. Fleet Street, which has spiced many a grey Sunday with...
The hangman's memoirs brightened the Sabbath with intimate glimpses of the killers about to die ("He blinked bewilderedly, screwing up his eyes") and craftsmanlike pride in his humane efficiency ("I hanged John Reginald Christie, the Monster of Rillington Place, in less time than it took the ash to...
Back in Athens Zachariades resumed leadership of the Communist Party. For a couple of years he organized political support for Communist guerrillas in Macedonia, notwithstanding Stalin's promise to Churchill in 1944 that Greece would stay a British sphere in return for a British hands-off in the Balkans...