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...delegate to the Joint Commission, said that if U.S. forces would withdraw from their zone at the beginning of 1948, "then the Soviet troops will be ready to leave Korea simultaneously." Translated from the Russian, this was another way of saying: Let us both leave the lamb to the butcher. Cried Moderate Leader Kim Kyh Sik, chairman of the Korean Interim Legislative Assembly: if the U.S. withdrew, "North Koreans would sweep down like red lava, cover South Korea and end Korea's existence." The U.S. Government, which last fortnight asked the U.N. General Assembly to help end the Korean...
...commander in chief of the Sixth Panzer Army, Joseph ("Sepp") Dietrich, onetime butcher boy and personal bodyguard to Hitler, was a failure. "He had at most the ability to command a division," said Goring of the general whose blundering cost the Germans some 37,000 men at the Battle of the Bulge. "Dietrich," said Rundstedt simply, "is decent, but stupid." After the war, however, Dietrich found a job where he was really appreciated...
...meeting took place in the small hours of the morning. Communist Barbi began with elaborate politeness: "Priests are all right in a church, but their concern is with eternity, not with time measurement." Then suddenly he lost his temper: "Hand over that money!" Nello Checchi, a rotund, jolly Communist butcher, came to Barbi's assistance: "I am the only Communist member of your Clock Committee. I know that it has done nothing because," and he pointed a swollen, accusing finger at the priest, "you, Father Bernardoni, wanted it to do nothing." Cried Christian Democrat Gallo...
Frau Koch's husband, the former commander of Buchenwald, was long since executed in one of his own butcher chambers for mishandling Nazi party funds. For the last two years his widow has been kept in closely guarded U.S. Army prisons. Despite this, she was eight months pregnant...
...Integrated "We." For 39 years, Dr. Morrison's pulpit has kept growing: Century readership has increased steadily, almost from the time he took over. The paper is now owned by the "editorial family" (the names listed on the masthead), with Dr. Morrison as chief stockholder. Like very few butcher-paper weeklies, it pays its own way without patrons...