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Civilization. In 1521, Magellan discovered the Philippines for Spain and the white man-and died there in a political gang fight on tiny Mactan. Spanish customs, as well as Spanish laws, were clamped on the bewildered tribesmen like plate mail. With civilization had come the teaching missionary priest, the gold, pearl and hemp trade, running wars between the Dutch and Spanish, the British and Spanish, and the inexorable organization and pacification of the innocent bystanders. By 1892, when the brilliant and visionary mestizo, Dr. José Rizal, began his ideological revolt against the friars and tottering Spain, Spain had given...
Haganah has denounced extremists of the Stern gang and the Irgun Zvai Leumi, which the British have long fought. Last week 31 young Jews (ages 19 to 28), members of the Irgun, were convicted of carrying firearms and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. (One, 19-year-old Benjamin Kaplan, was sentenced to life imprisonment for "discharging a firearm at His Majesty's forces.") In a turbulent three-day trial they shouted anti-British slogans from the dock, quoted Scripture (Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered . . .), chanted in unison "In blood and fire Judah fell; in blood...
Henderson informed police that he had been followed along Memorial Drive by a gang of 12 youths, who heckled him and his College affiliation before they seized him, and took his wallet, which contained a small amount of cash and numerous personal papers. He was later treated for cuts and bruises on the face...
Next day loyal Matsuzakayans closed their stalls for a half day's mourning, gathered to elect their dead leader's attractive widow, Yoshiko, as "Matsuzakaya the Sixth." In her flower-banked office, the first woman gang chieftain in Tokyo history planned a memorial service that promised to be "the biggest thing the tekiyas have ever seen." Then, her face still puffy from mourning, she sat easily behind her husband's desk and issued quiet, businesslike orders to the gangmen, who called her "Neisan"-Elder Sister. While her chief henchman, faultlessly attired in a morning coat with...
...whined through the soft June night. Now & again the hooting of horned owls broke into the steady cough of the gasoline engine, the dull banging of the sawmill carriage, the slap, slap of cut slabs. At dawn, the fireflies and the old crew left the sawmill and the day gang took over...