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15T LIEUT. JOSEPH E. MORELAND of Oil Hill, Kans.: "Interrogated for over 1,800 hours. He observed Soviet personnel guiding the interrogations. He was taken to Mukden . . . tried twice for refusing to confess germ warfare. The first trial ended in a sentence to a corrective labor camp-and a sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: A Story of Blood | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Such butchery by the Mau Mau, male and female, is fast becoming commonplace in the rich and sorrowful land of Kenya Crown Colony. In the twelve months since Governor Sir Evelyn Baring declared a state of emergency, the Mau Mau has murdered 730 Africans. 16 whites, eleven Indians.* In return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Slaughter in Kenya | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Berlin generally agreed with Miss Hughes in her opposition to censorship and emphasized the inconsistency and poor execution of censorship laws. Msgr. Lally, however, noted the need for censorship by law when it does not come from within. He said that "human freedom is not free at all," giving an...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: Hughes, Berlin Attack 'Censorship' in Boston | 10/31/1953 | See Source »

15. Death for convicted spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg was delayed one day when a stay of execution was ordered by:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL AFFAIRS,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,SQUALLS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN,OBIT,OTHER EVENTS,SJPEli it OUf: (THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD FROM LATE JUNE THROUGH MID-OCTOBER 1953) | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

"The indispensable basis for any law that would secure justice and freedom and equality is its identity, both in inception and in execution, with the principles of Christian conduct . .. [The] Declaration of Independence [says]: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: AN ABSOLUTE YARDSTICK | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

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