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...Swine!" Not many foreigners realize that when a Nazi youth is called up for military service the Army sergeants at whose mercy he finds himself commonly tell him to "Forget everything the Party taught you and remember you are a dog of a swine like the rest of these raw recruits!" If the Nazi has been an officer in the political Storm Troops, the Army sergeants up to now have been even harsher in knocking the conceit out of him. This attitude, raised from the brutality of a sergeant to the suavity of a general, was what Dictator Hitler encountered...
...Yorker fulminated tiredly, but the first person to do anything about the plates was a 42-year-old unemployed boiler mechanic of White Plains, one Martin McBohin, a Wartime Marine sergeant. Last week Martin McBohin stuck adhesive tape over the offensive lettering and was promptly arrested for defacing a license plate. Sure that he was standing on his rights, Objector McBohin, up for trial this week, roundly declared: "I'm prepared to appeal the case to the highest court." Indignantly he added: "Next thing you know the State will compel us to advertise someone's corn flakes." More...
...latest job for Boss Batista and the Herald Tribune, Laurence De Besa went back to the country which had long since banished his friend, Boss Machado. Undisturbed that ex-Sergeant Batista, who now runs Cuba with his army, was in fact the man who took greatest advantage of the Machado ouster, Writer De Besa soon was one of Batista's cronies. In the $32,000 worth of space in the Herald Tribune which he sold in Cuba, Mr. De Besa did not let his dictatorial friend Batista down. Wrote Mr. De Besa: "He will continue his role...
Judge Hincks was sternly critical of the Government's presentation as an attempt to "pollute the stream of justice." He accused the Government's attorney of trying to "smear an honest officer" in cross-examining a State police sergeant. He objected to the Government's lengthy charge that the defense had suppressed evidence without offering "a shred of support for the charge." But particularly annoying to the handsome, greying judge was the Government's plea to the jury to ignore the Court's charge. "[A judge] may fall into error," said Judge Hincks...
Political Tampa had little expectation that the murderers would ever be punished. Backed by a potent roster of labor and liberal groups, Socialist Norman Thomas nevertheless set up a "Committee for the Defense of Civil Rights in Tampa." Eleven men, including the police chief, were indicted. Presently the desk sergeant on duty the night of the floggings fell, jumped or was pushed to his death from the window of a Tampa hospital. A onetime justice of the peace also at police headquarters that night died suddenly and mysteriously. A Tampa Ku Klux Klansman implicated in the case was declared...