Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judge Rumpff was shocked. "You have committed a brutal and merciless assault on a boy who was no more than a child," he said. The court sentenced both brothers to eight years in jail and ten strokes with a bamboo cane (not to be raised higher than the shoulder of the striker). And at that the courtroom buzzed, and white women sobbed. Explained a Boer farmer: "To see white men sent to prison and flogged like Kaffirs for killing a thieving Kaffir is the deepest humiliation...
...Communist move that Dulles, had anticipated in Berlin was not long in coming. "Almost as rapidly as they could issue orders and gather their forces," as one Administration official said, the Viet Minh began their assault on Dienbienphu. It was quickly apparent that, in spite of high words from the French, Dienbienphu was going to fall. Dulles began to search for a countermove that would shore up the West's bargaining power. He decided to propose a conference on "united action" in Indo-China by ten powers-the U.S., Britain, France, the Associated Indo-Chinese states, Thailand, the Philippines...
...presented her with the Military Cross with palms "for courage under fire." Privately, De Castries told GHQ: "It is tragic that she must live here in this manner. She never stops working until she falls on her feet." As the Communists came in for their final assault, she sent her own final message to Hanoi: "Tell my mother not to worry. All goes well...
This may have been a smart bit of early-stage campaigning by Kefauver, but there is no reason to think that it was effective. It is not likely that Ray Jenkins, having burst upon the national scene, will retreat to the courtrooms of East Tennessee, never to assault a network microphone again. Jenkins is a man with a natural flair for politics. In the lobbies and dining rooms of Washington he shakes hands, signs autographs, and pats children just as readily as does his old pal Estes. If he could arouse enough Tennesseans to believe that Kefauver has marched...
...Saturday, wearing a black suit and tie of mourning for Dienbienphu's dead, Bidault walked into the Palais des Nations to face his triumphant enemies. He was pale, but he spoke with bitter eloquence. "The decisive assault in a gloriously unequal battle, carried on for 55 days, was launched on the very eve of the date set for this Geneva meeting whose prospect alone should normally have silenced cannon," he said. "We have already known sudden massacres on the morrow of peaceful negotiations, and this is not the first time that actions cruelly give the lie to words...