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Paying Texas with Georgia. The national committee, with Gabrielson calling the shots, seated 76 Taft delegates and 21 Ike delegates. Taft himself took credit for a "generous" offer to compromise the Texas fight. The key to this generosity was the theft of 15 seats in Georgia. The background...
...five months, the "Five-Antis Campaign"-against "bribery, tax evasion, cheating in contracts, stealing of state property and theft of state economic secrets"-had killed thousands of tigers (many were suicides) and enriched the hard-up Red regime by some $200 million worth of confiscated property. The Five-Antis drive in effect served as a war bond drive for Korea-except that the Chinese businessmen won't get their money back and won't produce at the old rate. Enriched by the booty, government finances were obviously better; after a half year's lapse, the Communists began...
...years later, Captain de Récy was stripped of his parliamentary immunity and dragged off to jail, charged with conspiracy, forgery and the theft of $285,714 worth of government bonds. It took the best efforts of France's Serété three years to determine just how De Récy had got the bonds and what he had done with them. One local judge was sent whimpering to an insane asylum after working on the complicated case...
Senator Taft's slick political devotees delivered a solid knee to the groin of the Republican Party this week, both figuratively and geographically. When the GOP's strongest appeal is based on charges of dishonesty and corruption in the Democratic administration, the bare-faced theft-of thirty-eight convention delegates is well calculated to deprive this campaign issue of much of its force...
...There was something to be said for the 'barbarous' days of the Beggar's Opera, when a theft of just 40 shillings was a hanging offense. If you put people 'in Fear on the highway' and robbed them or burgled . . ., values were no matter, and you were hanged, even if you took a penny or saucepan only. 'Putting in fear' was the important, unforgivable thing . . ." Nowadays in Britain, continued Herbert, "there is growing up, I feel, a notion that it is not cricket to hurt a burglar, though he may do anything...