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...Government's guarantee of security, a member of the secret police clubbed him with a steel riding crop as he strode into Ciudad Trujillo's Rialto Theater. He would probably have been shot had not his wife thrown herself in front of him as a shield. Bonilla got back to the consulate...
Near Tel-Aviv, Jews in battledress attacked an army camp with hand grenades, killed a British officer and a Negro sentry. The British had no time to call out their club-&-shield-toting police pickets (see cut). With a bellow of rage, African native soldiers burst out after the attackers. Storming into the nearby Jewish village of Holon, they sprayed it with bullets, hit anything that moved. Before their officers could round up the berserk blacks, an old man had been riddled with bullets, a boy ripped with bayonets...
Censorship is a necessary shield, wrote Baltisky, "in democratic countries, including Russia," against "all kinds of poisonous slander harmful to the cause of peace," and is justified "as long as influential newspapers or private owners" commit slander. Baltisky suggested a further extension: a world court to judge "internationally dangerous newspaper crimes" such as "a systematic urging toward war" and "political slander of any peace-loving state-that is, the spreading of knowingly false inventions...
...Washington, Secretary Byrnes affirmed the Braden doctrine that the hemispheric principle of non-intervention should not shield violators of the elementary rights of man. He also accepted Uruguayan Foreign Minister Alberto Rodriguez Larreta's ringing proposal that the American republics take joint action against oppressive regimes in their midst (TIME...
...Mode. The ladies of the Methodist Church had cooked up a typical country dinner-baked chicken and dressing, candied sweet potatoes, cranberry jelly, salad, apple pie and ice cream. The 42-room hotel's "banquet room" was hung with pennants. Against the printed wallpaper were a Kiwanis Club shield, a Junior Chamber of Commerce emblem, a War Bond campaign thermometer...