Word: traces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Homecoming. After Rome's liberation, Celeste disappeared; for a year, there was no trace of her. Then a Jewish veteran of the Italian army recognized her in a Naples brothel. After two years in jail, she was tried and, although she denied everything, sentenced to twelve years. Last spring a general amnesty freed her. She became a Roman Catholic. But she kept thinking of the ghetto she had left. She decided she wanted to see it again. Last month, she went home...
Through the acts of two widely disparate individuals, the last trace of doubt about the nature of the enemy had disappeared. In Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk jumped to his death, the tragic figure of thousands of men of good will who stubbornly held to the theory that the liberal can work with the Communist. In Manhattan, a distraught Russian schoolteacher leaped from an upper window in the Soviet consulate to escape return to Russia. More than speeches, reports or eyewitness accounts of life under Communism, her act nakedly revealed the bitter despair behind the glowing promises in Communism's workers...
Historicus goes on to trace how Stalin uses the above contradictions...
...eight months, as chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nürnberg trials, Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, had listened to Nazi bigwigs trace the rise & fall of Hitlerism. The big lesson of Nürnberg, he told a New York lawyers' meeting last week, was that Hitler doomed himself when he exiled scientists, suppressed information and halted intellectual progress. Why not, asked Jackson, in effect, let the Russians, who are making the same mistake, wither in their own stupidity? Said...
Sounding Lead. For years, no one could find the sunken hull. Other wreckage was found miles away. Mooncussers, scrabbling among the jetsam, found a piece of cabin from the Pentagoet, another steamer lost without trace. Had the ships rammed each other? Or had the Portland hit the bar? Or had she clawed off shore only to break up under the terrible pounding...