Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minister Jawaharlal Nehru finally caught up last week with Indian public opinion. In a speech to Parliament, he used, for Nehru, harsh words in reply to the weeks of billingsgate that have poured from Peking's press and radio. Nehru was "greatly distressed" at Red China's brutal suppression of the Tibetan revolt and at the "hapless plight" of the Tibetan people. In answering the charge that the Dalai Lama was being held against his will at Mussoorie (TIME, May 4), he obliquely called the Red Chinese liars. "They have used the language of the cold war," said...
...televised trials staged in Baghdad by the Iraqi People's Court, under the presidency of Premier Karim Kassem's cousin, Colonel Fadhil Mahdawi. Premier Kassem himself is known to have turned on the television in the middle of a Cabinet session, listened to the colonel's brutal buffooneries and irrelevancies, and murmured: "What a jewel we have here." Last week, with 16 officers and one civilian on trial for their lives, accused of taking part in the Mosul army revolt in March, sheep-eyed, sheep-headed Judge Mahdawi was in sparkling form as he interrupted a witness...
...northeast Africa. As Novelist Griffin tells it, Mussolini made the region an ornament of empire in the '30s; now the British are trying to get control through a mandate. To the white men who rule the area, native hatred is as much a fact of life as the brutal sun, the distant howls of hyenas. Belele has a fort, a few British officers, a power plant that is as unreliable as the loyalty of the natives. The Italians still remaining are despised by their British successors, who are themselves aware that service in such a post is proof...
...seats of power. Most of all, he can catch the hatred of mistreated natives in a brief scene, show on a single page the vast gulf of misunderstanding that separates insensitive whites and long-suffering blacks. His desert comes powerfully alive in brief, sharp descriptions, and without leaving his brutal, well-plotted story for a moment he makes his grim but debatable point with clarity: if Africa is lost to the West, it is because stupidity and brutality have been the means employed to keep...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Film clips of the brutal battle of Stalingrad, which changed the course of war on the eastern front...