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Anything but placid these days are good Queen Wilhelmina's Netherlands. Sharpshooting soldiers and crunching tanks were needed fortnight ago to crush Communist riots at Amsterdam where eight died and an old deaf woman went down with two bullets in her back (TIME, July 16). Last week more threats of disturbance in Rotterdam caused a large section of the city to be clapped under a state of alarm. In the Crooswyk quarter, where Communists were expected to demonstrate, troops moved in under orders to "Shoot on sight anyone who appears in the streets.'' When it came time...
...cover as officers roared "Get off the streets!" An old woman in a black bonnet jaywalked directly in front. From mourning Her Majesty had to turn to machine-guns of a Dutch platoon. She went down with two bullets in her back. "Merciful Jesus!" cried a householder. "She was deaf...
...London, Very Rev. William Ralph ("The Gloomy Dean") Inge set a definite date-Oct. 2-to his retirement from St. Paul's Cathedral. At 74, Dean Inge is in good health, but so deaf as to be tortured by the half sounds of music. Born of a solid ecclesiastical family, he is a low churchman, an arch-Tory, a rabble-hater. His successor, whose appointment the Dean recommended to his King, is Very Rev. Walter Robert Matthews, 53, dean of Exeter Cathedral. An able theologian and philosophy professor, Dr. Matthews is a religious modernist and far from gloomy...
...cold, unimaginative Victoria Eugenie, Princess of Battenberg, brought her husband woe too. She was never really popular among Spaniards. She brought the King the dread haemophilia (easy bleeding) of her house, bore him a haemophilia heir, a second son who was a deaf mute, finally two whole boys, two fine girls capable of passing on their mother's haemophilia...
...White Plains, N. Y., deaf mute Joseph Donahue was miserable because his deafmute mate, Bertha, no longer loved him. When his affectionate fingers soothed, coaxed, enlaced in tender love words. Bertha's fingers only snapped, coiled, contorted scornfully. In time, Joseph became suspicious, enlisted deafmute friends to trail Bertha, sued for divorce. In court, after the fingers of his friends curled, twirled, twisted out their discovery of Bertha's adultery with an electrical engineer, she could only wring, writhe, entwine her own fluttering hands in full confession...