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Tipped off last week that the Belo Horizonte peace ' movement planned a quiet meeting to re-elect the colonel as president, police called in army men and set a joint trap. When the colonel scurried in to join five former leaders of the outlawed Communist Party, the cops arrested the Reds and closed in on the colonel. Shouting "I will not leave here alive," he fell back. The cops, not too sure about collaring colonels, also fell back. For three hours they stood guard until the local garrison commander was finally found at an afternoon movie. "Remove...
...General's Wench has a happy ending. Sir John arrives at the whipping post with his usual ploof. The lawyer falls through a trap door; his accomplice is dropped into a pit of lime. There was "an awful sizzling as Alfy began to cook...
Harry Truman was a genius with a political booby trap, and he knew it. He had, apparently, resisted that impulse. But even without clotting, the Truman Administration had done-or left undone-enough things to make the changeover a long, tough proposition...
...Times walked, eyes open, into a trap, well described last Oct. 4 by the In-national Press Institute, founded by the Times's Sunday Editor Lester Markel...
...Dutch daily Trouw, has as its ally not only "the fifth column, embodied in the Communist parties devoted to Moscow [but] a sixth column of moral simpletons, ministers, artists and professors who are against Communism but who are also against 'America,' and who walk into every trap, no matter how simple, set up by Moscow." The sixth column has been diminished but not destroyed. The Communist Party seems so weakened today that many Americans have concluded that a pitiful bunch of jailed leaders, with their impoverished newspaper, cannot possibly constitute much of a danger...