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...airs, when things really got tough in Nazi Germany, Ulbricht was one of the first to run out. As a Communist agent he took refuge in Prague, then Paris. In between, there were the months in civil war-torn Spain when, from his base at Albacete, he took on the OGPU-assigned task of purging the West European "Trotskyites," i.e.. anti-Stalinists. What made Walter Ulbricht famous in Spain was his ingenious torture chamber, a cell of granite blocks too small for a man to stand...
...crossbreeds of Portuguese and native blood-disguised as priests, swept down on the missions to carry off their congregations, sometimes killing the Jesuit fathers as well. "[The captives] were led away, chained and corded, like herds of cattle." wrote one missionary in a horrified letter home. "Suckling babes were torn from the bosoms of their mothers and cruelly dashed upon the ground. The aged and diseased were either cut down or shot." In 130 years of terror, the mamelukos are said to have killed (though such old statistics are suspect...
...sympathies of the U.S.. torn between big ally France and small friend Bourguiba (U.S. aid comprises 60% of the Tunisian government's budget), was as divided as its arms-which both sides are using against each other. Disregarding U.S. pleas that the dispute should be settled between themselves, Bourguiba demanded an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council, where Tunisia accused France of "premeditated aggression." France's U.N. Ambassador Armand Bérard retorted that the Tunisian events were "tragic and regrettable," but that "a minor pretext was used by the government of Tunisia-some minor work...
...German Communists in the World War II days, when much of the party fled to Moscow for asylum from Hitler. Ulbricht was apparently happy to see his political rivals disposed of. In May 1945, it was Ulbricht who led the little ten-man convoy of Communist leaders into war-torn Berlin to start the regime that today holds East Germany in a grip of iron...
Justice showed its hardest faces in Austria and in France. An Austrian Interlude is marked by the injustice that is created by rudeness and arrogance in judges. On a minor charge of malicious damage (something about a torn curtain), the woman defendant is both badgered and insulted by the court. And in Paris, Author Bedford looked on with fascination and horror at a farcical trial of Algerians. The men may very well have been the terrorists the prosecution claimed they were, but the trial itself was a form of terrorism. The judge was indifferent, the lawyers made irrelevant speeches laced...