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...leaders who actually stood trial, eleven were sentenced to hang, seven received prison sentences, three were acquitted. Condemned to death, Reich Marshal Hermann Göring committed suicide by poison in his prison cell. Ten Nazis-including Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Armed Forces Chief Wilhelm Keitel, and General Alfred Jodl, Hitler's chief military adviser-died on the gallows...
...Poisoned Atmosphere. Germans were furious. Calling the photos a "gross forgery," Bonn Press Chief Karl-Günther von Hase demanded that the French government take action against Paris Match. Prince Konstantin of Bavaria promised to bring the issue before the Bundestag, and he complained that a magazine of the "reputation and importance of Paris Match cannot be allowed to poison the political atmosphere for the purpose of creating a phony sensation." Said Die Welt's Munich correspondent Wilhelm Maschner, who has done some sober reporting of his own on German neo-Nazism: "Such false alarms tend to weaken...
...Poison on the Wounds. In his lean and brisk account of the 1956 war, Dayan discusses tactical errors made by his own army and dissects them so frankly that many Israelis are clamoring for his other eye. Typical is the claim, of former Foreign Minister Golda Meir, that Dayan's book drips "poison on the open wounds of bereaved parents" by telling them that their sons were often killed because of Israeli mistakes. If anything, such complaints are a disservice to the man who conceived and executed a brilliant military adventure of such power and daring that the memory...
...there was no doubt that the purge of "counterrevolutionary" Communists that swept Peking's Mayor Peng Chen from office (TIME, June 10) was spreading rapidly into the provinces. In southern Yunnan province and in neighboring Kweichow, editors of provincial party papers were under fire for spreading "revisionist poison." In Szechwan, a high-ranking official in the party's regional directorate was accused of having shamelessly attacked party cadres. "He has not yet made a confession," snarled the local radio, "but he will not be allowed to sneak by." The Deputy Governor of Shantung province was charged with attempting...
...Virginia Conservative Party, an ultra-right organization created last summer to oppose Godwin, race-mixing, and "Socialism," will not support Virginia's incumbent senators, A. Willis Robertson and Byrd's son, Harry Jr., though both have been poison to liberals for years...