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...tribunal that was examining conscientious objectors for good faith, Strachey appeared, surrounded by his family and padded against the reality of hard benches with a private, pale blue air cushion. Asked the tribunal's spokesman: "What would you do, Mr. Strachey, if you saw an Uhlan attempting to rape your sister?" Whereupon, as Garnett tells it, "Lytton looked at his sisters in turn, as though trying to visualize the scene, and gravely replied in his high voice : 'I should try to interpose my own body...
...years later, Grogan was defeated for Britain's House of Commons, largely because his opponent dwelled on the time young Grogan, back in Kenya, had set upon and thrashed a young Negro who had just been acquitted of trying to rape a white woman. After his electoral defeat in England, Grogan settled permanently in Kenya...
...Bamberg seven G.I.s were arrested, charged with the rape of a 15-year-old German schoolgirl. The city council called for the removal of all U.S. troops from the city...
...zooerastry, in almost all the exhaustive (and libel-proof) detail of the court transcript. "We are not a sensational paper," says the paper's creed. " 'Sensation' means making a lot out of nothing. We give facts, simply present all the news." Thus, in columns rife with rape, the paper never descends to such pseudo-glamorous tabloid cliches as "voluptuous" or "comely" to describe a victim; it simply tells the reader in cold detail what happened up to the stage where, as its reports invariably note, offense took place...
...Tikoloshe wants a ride, for in South Africa, what Tikoloshe wants, Tikoloshe gets. A tiny, hairy, deformed little spirit, half human, half animal, Tikoloshe conceives his mischief in the reeds by riverbanks. To look at him means instant death, yet no man can refuse his bidding. Murder, thievery and rape are all equally condoned by the Zulu natives if their perpetrator can prove to his neighbors that Tikoloshe forced him to the act. Even the white man's courts on occasion have found Tikoloshe's influence an extenuating factor in major crimes. Last week the South African government...