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...Ransom Price? The verdict touched off a roar of protest all over the free world. The State Department blasted the trial as "a kangaroo court staged before the klieg lights of propaganda," a "shabby 'conviction'" based on "fabricated charges." In London, the News Chronicle cried: "To make the legitimate gathering of news a crime as the Czechs have done is as severe an indictment of the Communist regimes as there could...
Robert A. Vogeler, recuperating from the same kind of Darkness-at-Noon proceeding, put his finger on the probable Czech motive for the Oatis conviction. "They snatch an American citizen," said Vogeler, "and hold him prisoner until our State Department coughs up ransom . . . We are the greatest country and we continue to crawl." To get Vogeler out of jail, the U.S. went along with the Communists' snatch & ransom plot, forked over several million dollars worth of industrial concessions to the Hungarian government. What ransom do the Czechs want? Among the guesses is that they want the U.S. to shut...
...carries through into the undergraduate's every action. An alumna tells the story of this spring's version of a traditional Wellesley rite--theft of the sophomore banner by freshmen. In an unusually spirited retaliation, the sophomores kidnapped the president of the freshman class and held her overnight in ransom for their flag. "Of course," the alumna adds quickly, "they asked the permission of the Dean of Students first...
Other participants in the symposium will be Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Elliott Coleman, Richard V. Chase, Jr., Egon Fritz-Vietta of Germany, Charles L. Stevenson, and Alfred V. Frankenstein, music and art critic...
...meeting between Vogeler's handsome, Belgian-born wife and Secretary of State Acheson, news leaked that the U.S. was negotiating for Vogeler's release. A press association correspondent reported that the Hungarians were demanding the return of the 1,000-year-old crown of St. Stephen as ransom for Vogeler. The crown, a religious relic and symbol of. Hungarian sovereignty, was stolen by the Nazis, recovered by the U.S. Army. Roman Catholic dignitaries, including New York's Cardinal Spellman, protested against the return of the crown...