Word: absentia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hungary Prevented. Stefan Wyszynski was in Rome last week to get, among other things, the cardinal's red hat that was awarded him in absentia in 1953, for he had been unable to pick it up in person. The chief reason: for three years, until last October, Wyszynski was a prisoner of the Communists. A cardinal's hat is red to symbolize its wearer's willingness to defend the faith "even unto the shedding of his blood.'' But Wyszynski's greatness lies in his prevention of bloodshed...
...Ghassan Jedid, fanatic antiCommunist, had spent his time laying the groundwork for a revolt against the Communist-infiltrated clique which Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj (TIME, Jan. 14) has led to power in Syria. Shortly after Jedid's arrival in Lebanon a Syrian court sentenced him to death in absentia for his alleged complicity in the assassination of a Serraj colleague. Early this month, during Serraj's show trial of 47 pro-Western Syrians charged with participation in an "Iraqi plot," the prosecutor again called for the death sentence on Jedid. To the angry Lebanese, whose relations with Syria...
Died. Max Ausnit, 69, onetime Rumanian steel and munitions magnate who fled to the U.S. in 1946, later (1948) was charged by the Communist-led Rumanian government with plotting revolution with American and British agents (1948), sentenced him to life imprisonment in absentia (his second such trial; at the first, in 1944, the Nazi puppet government gave him a death sentence after he escaped to Egypt in a stolen bomber); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...vast industrial buildup of the early 1900s. As a war mobilizer in the Kaiser's army in World War I, Captain Röchling ordered the scrapping of French iron and steel plants in occupied areas. Later the victorious French sentenced Hermann Röchling in absentia to ten years in prison, confiscated the Röchlings' big iron works and ore fields in Lorraine, plus 60% of their Völklingen steel plant and some coal mines in the neighboring Saar...
...Three Italians were tried for murder but released by Italian courts; two U.S. Armymen, Aldo Icardi and Carl LoDolce, were convicted by Italy in absentia but cannot be extradited for punishment, nor can they be tried for the crime...