Word: absentia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...typical story of a Communist dupe-and Thomas Mann had shown himself to be only too susceptible to the Communist shell game. The Warsaw Peace Conference had elected Dr. Mann to its presidium in absentia, and Mann had had to cable a protest and his explanation: he had written France's Communist Dr. Joliot-Curie refusing to attend the conference but expressing his sympathy for Joliot-Curie's efforts for peace. Mann had refused to sign the Stockholm petition, but had sent a recorded message to Chicage's Mid-Century Conference for Peace, taken over...
...never seen Chambers, but this did not faze him. He had psychoanalyzed Adolf Hitler in absentia, correctly predicting that Hitler would commit suicide. He said: "We have what is known as blind analysis"-analyzing the results of another psychologist's tests...
Meanwhile the Assembly received a progress report on the work of France's courts trying collaboration cases: to date, they have imposed 7,100 death sentences (4,400 of them in absentia), of which about 800 have actually been carried out; 3,000 sentences to hard labor for life; 39,000 sentences of hard labor, military confinement or simple imprisonment...