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...more Japs") Devereux; of diabetes; in Washington, D.C. An Army daughter (of Colonel John P. Welch, in command of the Quartermaster Depot at Richmond, Va.), pretty Mrs. Devereux's illness had apparently been aggravated by worry over the fate of her husband, last reported in a Shanghai prison camp. Orphaned for the duration was Son Patrick Devereux...
...Bank Employe Thomas Potter Davis Jr. was "slapped continuously, forced to sit Japanese fashion on iron crossbars and was turned over a prison chair while several policemen leaned their weight on him. Finally he was slapped across the face with his own sport shoes...
...Vichy mockery of Laval and Pétain, Frenchmen observed the day. In Paris thousands marched silently past the Unknown Soldier's tomb. In Lyons processions swarmed through the city singing the Marseillaise. In Marseille a crowd of 5,000 denounced Laval, demonstrated outside the military prison, cheered the U.S. Consulate. Police unlimbered their submachine guns, killed at least five. In Vichy 300 people made a tricolor showing before the Third Republic Memorial...
...also nearly ruined Composer Shostakovich. At the height of the Purge, when Russian nerves were badly frayed and people were plopping into prison like turtles into a pond, Stalin decided to hear Lady Macbeth. He did not like it, walked out before it was over. Murder from boredom struck him as a bourgeois idea. Besides, Stalin's musical taste runs to simple, more tuneful things, zigzags between Beethoven's Eroica and Verdi's Rigoletto. Also, he had a seat directly above the brasses...
Promptly a Pravda article called Shostakovich's music "un-Soviet, unwholesome, cheap, eccentric and leftist" (atonal). A few days after that, Pravda attacked his ballet, The Limpid Stream. Friends feared that Shostakovich's next composition might have to be called Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make. But Composer Shostakovich was not a revolutionist for nothing. He publicly agreed that Pravda knew more about music than he did. He withdrew his Fourth Symphony (it has never been performed) after one rehearsal. He announced that he would stake his musical future on a Fifth Symphony...