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Everywhere the pattern was the same: these were not chance killings but deliberate, premeditated executions of political prisoners, relatives of South Korean soldiers and suspected antiCommunists. Said the United Nations Commission on Korea in a report to Secretary General Trygve Lie: "The commission condemns the complete disregard by the North Korean authorities of civilized standards of behavior as well as of the principle of the Geneva Conventions." At week's end a conservative estimate of the number of civilians killed by the retreating Reds...
...cherishing worldly goods, cautions them that man's spirit, not logic and reason, must govern their lives. So far, Prince X sounds almost like a Christian. He is not; he is a Nietzschean. He disdains pity and charity, preaches the importance of the here & now and a disregard for the future. His rule is absolute and his subjects may not question him: "He who questions is seeking, primarily, the abyss...
...minister, announced Saturday tha this country would not "supinely tolerate seeing her neighbors being savagely invaded by imperialists." India may eventually go along with the eight-nation proposal in the Assembly, and China's threats may be purely for propaganda purposes, but that was no reason for us to disregard the statements o these two countries altogether...
...Signed the $36 billion omnibus appropriation bill, meanwhile rapping Congress for ordering him to do what Congress could not do, i.e., cut $550 million from the bill, and declaring, as forecast, that he would disregard Congress' instructions to lend $62.5 million of the appropriation to Franco's Spain...
...luck-being at the right place at the right time. One day last week, Commander Duncan Hodgson of the Royal Canadian Navy was at the right place, St. Ann Bay, Nova Scotia, at the right time, 1 p.m. He caught a whopper. Moreover, he did it with almost primitive disregard for what U.S. tuna experts consider standard routine...