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...week Belgium's Communists and other leftists had inflamed the Resistance forces to defy the Government. Now they had got what they wanted-martyrs and a lethal slogan: "Pierlot Assassin! Pierlot Assassin...
Over Finland the long darkness of the subarctic winter nights had begun to close in. So had the political night. In Helsinki, an assassin fired five bullets at close range into the back of a Russian naval officer's head. The assassin escaped. Near Helsinki's airport a Finn, armed with a flatiron, attacked a Russian soldier. The Finn was arrested. At the same airport, a few days later, were found the murdered bodies of two Red Army officers. The shattered country was heaving and grinding like an ice floe...
...Quartermaster. Colonel Canella had an unblemished record of 25 years in the Army, 28 letters of commendation from various superiors. No West Pointer. he started his Army career as an ROTC man at the University of Iowa, where he played such violent football that he was dubbed the "Sicilian Assassin." Three days after Pearl Harbor, he arrived at Santa Ana to start building the air base. He liked parties, told cute stories, refereed cadets' football games. Townspeople and cadets liked...
...Lama y Rojas, son of a wealthy merchant from the President's home state of Puebla. As the President turned to enter the private elevator, the 32-year-old lieutenant pulled a .45 revolver, blazed away. Before a second shot could be fired, the President grasped the assassin's wrist, twisted it until the gun clattered to the floor. In jail, Avila Camacho later talked to his attacker, let it be known through a spokesman that Lieut. Lama y Rojas was a "Nazi sympathizer." Lieut. Lama y Rojas complained: "There is no justice...
Treue richly satisfies the Jappetite for bloodshed. It contains 49 successful murders and suicides, a few unsuccessful ones. The story tells how 47 faithful Ronin (knights), led by one of the Rōnin, Yuranosuke, avenge the assassination of feudal War Lord Yenya. Having dispatched the assassin, Prince Moronao, all 47 commit hara-kiri at Yenya 's grave - as a sign that their oath of feudal loyalty holds good even to death...