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...German soldier who carries this safe conduct is using it as a sign of his genuine wish to go into captivity for the next ten years, to betray his fatherland, to return home a broken old man and very probably never to see his parents, wife and children again...
...slim, blue-eyed woman with high cheekbones that betray her Norwegian ancestry, she lives in a small apartment in Manhattan's musical Fifties. She is married to Edward Gates, a CBS production man, and is quite certain that marriage and a career mix perfectly. Says she, in her rather flat, methodical manner: "My husband has his own career and keeps himself very busy. Everyone needs someone he can trust, someone he can let his hair down to. Anyone who is self-sufficient must be a completely selfish person...
First before the Paris court came Georges Suarez, tough-minded former editor of the collaborationist Aujourd'hui. During the Nazi occupation, his editorials had exhorted Frenchmen to betray members of the Resistance. "Informing used to be a necessity," he said, "now it is an obligation." Suarez also liked to quote French Catholic Writer Joseph de Maistre: "The executioner is the keystone of modern society." Solemnly the Paris judge and his four assistants listened to a reading of Suarez' editorials. Then they passed sentence: for Editor Suarez, execution...
...Representatives stood still while Polish-American members denounced Russia on the 154th anniversary of the first Polish Constitution. Father Orlemanski drew a share of the abuse. Said Representative John Lesinski of Dearborn, Mich.: "Remembering Judas Iscariot ... I can't help wondering what price the priest is asking to betray the land of his forefathers, his Church and the loyal Americans of Polish descent...
...since Hitler turned east: lie, insult, slander. Nazi propaganda set to work to prove a fatal rift in the fabric of agreement supposedly woven at Teheran, raise again the specter of a Red Europe. Ordinary Russians, taught to believe their press implicitly, now wondered whether Britain was about to betray them. In the U.S. many a plain citizen had his faith in Russia as an ally and as a responsible partner in peace severely shaken...