Word: absentia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Express cartoon was one of the lowest journalistic blows of the year; historic fact is that it was Pierre Laval's government which condemned De Gaulle to death in absentia after the fall of France in 1940, because of his refusal to collaborate with the Nazis. But low as it was, the cartoon was only a little lower than the run-of-the-mill abuse that London's Fleet Street was directing last week at De Gaulle and Adenauer...
Overnight the presidential future books trembled: Nixon clearly stood with McClellan for a sterner labor bill in defense of rank-and-file rights; Kennedy lost face; Humphrey, in absentia, looked silly. And on close second look Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, famous for his deft control of the Senate, looked like the man who had let it all happen. Wags whispered that his L.B.J. initials meant "Let's Block Jack...
Despite his willingness to let bygones be bygones, De Gaulle had not forgotten that Vichy had once sentenced him to death in absentia. His tolerance clearly did not yet extend to paying an ex-collaborator public honor...
...prisoners were shot, raising the four-week execution total to 264. In Victoria de las Tunas eight more were condemned. Havana rebels will organize six more courts to speed the trial of 1,500 candidates for "revolutionary justice." The rebels indicted Batista and 24 top officers in absentia for "treason, rebellion, sedition, desertion, malfeasance, robbery and fraud." Foreign embassies in Havana were crowded with 74 exiles who still have not got safe-conduct permits to leave the country...
...court turned on the experts, declared them guilty as accessories. Réau got a sentence of eight months, suspended, and 20,000 francs fine on the remarkable charge of "delivering numerous certificates without formulating doubts or nuances, based solely on black-and-white pictures." Cordovado, tried in absentia, was sentenced to one year. In effect, the art experts had been held legally responsible for carelessness. Said France-Soir: "Professor Réau's condemnation has caused a profound stupor in university and artistic milieus." Réau professed himself "profoundly troubled...