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...National Party, the Peasant Party-had formed a coalition in the days when Warsaw was besieged. Karski was ordered to help bring about a similar understanding in Lwow. He went first to Borecki, a prominent 60-year-old politician who still lived in his own apartment and carried poison in his signet ring. The old man said: the underground is the official continuation of the Polish Government. It has three tasks: to protect the people, to record German crimes, to keep an administrative framework functioning in preparation for independence. Within the underground there is complete political freedom for each party...
...four years Sulzberger traveled an estimated 100,000 miles through 30 countries, was banned successively from Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Italy for his fascist-needling articles. Italy's Virginio Gayda called him "a creeping tarantula, going from country to country, spreading poison." The Gestapo once arrested him as a British spy. As he gained experience, he was sent to Moscow for six months, then south to cover the Allied push up the Continent. His top stories in the past year have bean interviews with Tito and Mikhailovich...
These were staples of prewar Mediterranean imports. Red squill, a plant that resembles the onion, is dried and processed into rat poison. Argols, scales that form on the lining of old wine vats, are a crude form of potassium bitartrate. Bergamot oils are used in perfumes and soaps...
...Nicholas' Church. Wrote he: "Having seen your tenderhearted request for comforts for the blasphemers of God and butchers of men, I herewith send a small comfort which I am sure will be good for them. . . ." The Vicar's contribution was a tin of rat poison...
Laura (20th Century-Fox), thanks to some slick direction by Otto Preminger and a cast out of the top drawer, is a highly polished and debonair whodunit with only one inelegant smudge on its gleaming surface. In swank settings that cry for a pinch of poison or at least a dainty derringer, the victim is obliged for purposes of plot to have her pretty face blown off by a double-barreled shotgun fired at close range...