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...Trial and the Rope. The war and German occupation brought Damaskinos to his full national stature. He returned to Athens as Archbishop after his old opponent, Chrysanthos, was dismissed for refusing to swear in the first quisling Premier, General George Tsolakoglu. But Archbishop Damaskinos was no stooge...
When Damaskinos visited German military headquarters, he always carried a length of rope with him. When the Germans lost their tempers, Damaskinos would hand them the rope...
...wish to hang me, as the Turks did Gregorios, here is the rope...
...Government needed a heavyhanded, blue-blooded officer to rope in some of its maverick commanders in China. It chose Prince Higashi-Kuni. He dressed down his notorious relative, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, who stood by at the rape of Nanking and subsequently at the "Death March" from Bataan. In 1941, Higashi-Kuni was put in charge of the important home defense command. In that post he is said to have threatened the execution of U.S. airmen after the famed Doolittle raid on Tokyo...
...this farcical rope, the editor hangs up the picture in a heartfelt editorial. By this time Over 21 has developed most, if not all, of the cinema possibilities in Actress-Author Ruth Gordon's original stage play...