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...more than a year, East Germany's bricklayers, asphalt, steel and cement workers have gone through an unprecedented period of full employment, building runways, flak emplacements and barrack? for the Soviet air force. East German taxpayers paid the costs. German labor offices had to recruit thousands of workers. If the labor offices failed, their functionaries were demoted or arrested. If German workers demurred, they were told: "Well, you can go into the People's Police or the uranium mines if you prefer." There is now a massive and menacing concentration of Russian air power in the Soviet zone...
Underneath the lantern, by the barrack...
...neither killed nor raped anyone. Mrs. Keith was beaten up by soldiers while pregnant and ill and had a miscarriage-but that was only a mild foretaste of things to come. The prisoners were moved to Berhala Island just offshore. Women & children were housed in one crowded, ill-ventilated barrack; the men some distance away in another. Said the Jap commanding officer: "You are a fourth-class nation now. Therefore your treatment will be fourth-class, and you will live and eat as coolies. In the past you have had proudery and arrogance! You will get over...
There were no dreamhouses at Airport Homes. It wasn't even a very fancy veterans' housing project-just a row of barrack-like frame buildings thrown up on vacant lots near Chicago's municipal airport. But the apartments were empty. Veterans who lived near by in their in-laws' homes kept tabs: the houses looked as if they were going to stay empty for quite a while...
...Little Priest. Other modern dictators had been men so evil that their personalities obscured the inherent evil of dictatorship. Franco was a barrack-room bully, Mussolini a strutting iiar, Hitler a ranting sadist, and Stalin a bloody-minded professor of the art of power. But Salazar was a virtuous man-selfless, intelligent, efficient. If despotism could be benevolent, Salazar's character was ideal material for "the good dictator." Born at Santa Comba Dao, not far from Europe's second oldest university, in a typical pink-walled Portuguese Village, he had made such good marks in grade school that...