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Last week again there were dark passions at the bridge. Two 14-year-old Negro boys stopped a 13-year-old white girl who was crossing the trestle on her way home from school. The boys took her to the riverbank underneath, attempted to rape her. Deputies arrested the boys, took them to the county jail at Quitman...
...crime frequently suggests another, and it sometimes happens that a small wave of violence follows one sensational brutality. But the outbursts of cold murder and the high incidence of rape in the nation during the last few weeks seem to be something else again. Public officials and welfare workers think they see a deeper reason than mere suggestion...
...Japanese military and police followed traditions reaching back to primitive ages . . . ranging from disregard of diplomatic courtesies to the imprisonment and torture of American and British correspondents, businessmen and missionaries, the massacre of British and American wounded at Hong Kong and Wake Island . . . the rape and slaughter of British women, including war hospital nurses." A U.S. dentist who had practiced in Hong Kong seven years. Dr. J. S. Pyne, told of Hong Kong's fall: "They lined up about 3,000 British and Americans and marched us down the main street four abreast before the native population. . . . There...
...scout, was supposed to bring his prisoners in alive, for questioning. But his prisoners always had their heads and bodies bashed and were dead or dying. Scout Tikhonov wept, and wrung his hands, and promised to do better, and never did. He said that he had seen the Germans rape and kill a girl in the barn at home...
This was the worst atrocity committed by a civilized nation in modern times. It was not even hot and savage like the Japanese rape of Nanking. It was cold and calm. The Germans did it with the expression of a concentration-camp guard kicking a prisoner in the groin. There was no need of the grapevine to get news of Lidice to the civilized world: the Germans themselves announced it in official radio broadcasts from Prague and Berlin...