Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loftily Kesselring defended his part in the business. "Reprisals and the shooting of civilians as a last resort," he said, smiling in the harsh light of the courtroom's naked bulbs, "are nowhere prohibited by international law." (In a general sense, this statement was true, although it did not necessarily apply to the case...
...There was none of Nürnberg's cold impersonality about the dingy Roman courtroom where two German generals stood trial last week before a British war crimes tribunal. "The blood of my husband claims justice!" screamed a woman as the chief witness for the defense took the stand. "Butchers, murderers!" spat 25 others standing with her, each wearing a silver badge marked "320." That stood for the number of Italian civilians the German Command had ordered killed in the Ardeatine Caves in reprisal for 32 Nazis bombed in Rome in March...
WASHINGTON, December 4--John L. Lewis was fined $10,000 and his United Mine Workers $3,500,000 today after a rearing courtroom scene in which Lowis challenged the judge to fine him anything he pleased...
WASHINGTON, December 8--John L. Lewis today was found guilty of criminal contempt of court--with a possible heavy sentence--but the coal strike went on and the Government took drastic emergency action to save fuel by rising in the Federal courtroom and making a bitterly deflant speech. He accused the judge of depriving the coal minors of their constitutional rights. He said he would "firmly stand" on his position...
Koestler's deadpan, newspaper style of writing, with its emphasis upon understatement, suggests impartiality and permits objective writing, as in the courtroom and 1939 riot chapters, to gain great emotional force and a continual atmosphere of tension. Unfortunately, Koestler's people disappear just as they begin to become interesting as individuals, but what they have to say and think is vivid and unmistakable. For "Thieves in the Night" is more than mere debate. It is essentially a remarkably exciting narrative presentation of a political philosophy on a high intellectual level that should have appeal for all readers, whether...