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Weakness v. Strength. The German High Command also had to watch Germany's north coast. At Yalta, the Big Three had promised blows on the Reich from "east, west, north and south." Last week in the U.S., an editorial in the Army and Navy Journal said that "the details...
The real shocker was a supine human skeleton, varnished with gleaming gilt paint, dazzlingly berobed and tenderly laid out to impersonate one Kuo Ch'in Wang, a Ch'ing Dynasty prince. After that, it was scarcely surprising to see a ghostly, frozen parade of the glittering imperial robes...
The London Poles charged that: ¶Polish Communists, cooperating with the N.K.V.D. (Russian secret police), had organized special courts to purge "enemies of the people"-i.e., all political opponents of the Warsaw Government. ¶ The purge included the disarming and jailing of Home Army units, the execution of many of...
Under the guns of the Red Army, Bulgarian justice moved swiftly. In Sofia the trials of the war criminals ended with a bang-of rifles. Hardly had the "People's Courts" pronounced sentence on the "enemies of the people" for "dragging" Bulgaria into war than the firing squads lined...
As the Salt Lake City Tribune's first woman reporter, redheaded Florabel Muir wanted to become the first woman to cover an execution. Utah law said executions could be witnessed only by men. Florabel dickered, fumed, finally got the State Attorney General to rule that she was a reporter...