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...public sympathy swung heavily to Hardy's side. Paris' stuffy Court of Assizes (where Pétain and Laval had been tried) was crammed with veterans of the Resistance-and with their memories. Said one René Hardouin, owner of a coffee stall at a Paris railway station, who had sabotaged railroads under Hardy: "I don't know whether he denounced anyone. When they torture you, you give away anything, after a time. But Hardy is a hero, anyway." At the end of the trial Hardy, tired and unsmiling throughout, made a final plea: "Never have...
...odes to daybreak entered last week in Japan's annual imperial poetry contest. The work of Emperor Hirohito himself, it was composed in a railway carriage enroute to the much-bombed town of Mito. The prizewinning poem (by a lesser author...
Fare Trial. In Worcester, Mass., Gordon Browne, put off a bus before his stop, after an argument with the driver, sued the Worcester Street Railway Co. for breach of contract. His claim...
Body Blow. In Copenhagen, Johannes Madsen got hit by a train, was ordered to pay the state railway for damage to the engine...
...made another move on the Far Eastern chessboard. In a quietly firm note to Moscow and Nanking, it asked for a speedy end to Soviet control of the Chinese port of Dairen and the Chinese Changchun Railway-and a speedy reopening of both to world traffic...