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...Moslem and Hindu leaders of Kenya's 120,000 Asians (most of them Indians) demanded the right, as Kenyans, to join in the fight against the terrorist Mau Mau. White settlers, who are outnumbered 3 to 1 by the Indians, 130 to 1 by the native Africans, protested that arms might make the Asians uppity, but the British Colonial Office, strapped for military manpower to cope with the Mau Mau, ordered 6,500 young Indians, between 18 and 23, to be drafted for military service...
Last week, in the little red schoolhouse in Kapenguria, Jomo Kenyatta stood up for sentence, accused of having used his influence to foment unrest among the Kikuyu tribes, and of "managing the Mau Mau," the secret terrorist organization which has murdered 542 uncooperative Kikuyu and nine whites in the past year. Said Kenyatta, in a soft, purring voice: "We have not received justice . . . None of us would condone the mutilation of human beings. We have families...
Inside Russia, they lowered prices, proclaimed an amnesty for thousands of petty offenders, and reversed themselves by releasing 15 Soviet doctors accused last January of a "terrorist plot" to assassinate Soviet leaders. The doctors' confessions were faked, they said, in a startling repudiation of a purge that had been approved by their god-leader, Joseph Stalin...
Only three months ago, before Stalin died, nine Soviet doctors, at least five of them Jews, were arrested and found guilty of a terrorist plot ". . . to cut short the lives of Soviet leaders." They were said to have confessed to the murder of two Politburocrats-Andrei Zhdanov (died 1948) and Alexander Shcherbakov (died 1945) -and to "fiendish plans" to kill the top-ranking officers of the Red army. "These fiends in human shape," said Radio Moscow, "were hired foreign intelligence agents" financed by the U.S. Government and by "international Jews...
...young (33) terrorist visited Cracow, where Lenin, in exile, trying to build up a group of hard-core professional revolutionaries inside Russia, was delighted with him, wrote to Maxim Gorky about his "wonderful Georgian." In Vienna he met Trotsky, who paused to note "the glint of animosity" in "Stalin's yellow eyes." Stalin wrote in Pravda (which he had helped to found): "Trotsky's childish plan for the merging of the unmergeable [Bolsheviks and Mensheviks] has proved him ... a common, noisy champion with faked muscles." In St. Petersburg in 1913, police got wind of Stalin's presence...