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...added last week to the 117 executions and 97 other sentences meted out by Soviet star-chamber courts after the assassination of Dictator Joseph Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10). For the first time since the Russian Revolution of 1917, eminent agents of the dread Gay-pay-oo or secret police were themselves dragged before one of the drumhead courts they have made odious...
...operation on his gall bladder. The leader of the Church's counterattack, fat, sloe-eyed Archbishop Pascual Diaz, sat grimly in the Archiepiscopal Palace in Mexico City. While the Government persecuted his flock, the Primate of All Mexico, who is a pure Jalisco Indian, held in reserve one dread (to Catholics) weapon, the awful word of excommunication, which he may pronounce, the Pope may confirm...
...resolutions said to have been passed by Communist groups all over Russia demanding Death for Kamenev and Zinoviev. Since 117 small fry had already been shot (TIME, Jan. 7). seemingly nothing could have saved Prisoners Zinoviev and Kamenev last week, if the expressions of popular demand were genuine. When dread Judge Ulrich, "Stalin's Executioner," sentenced Zinoviev to only ten years imprisonment and Kamenev to only five...
...instructors, Professor-Novelist Robert Herrick. who once told him he would never "write a novel worth opening." Last week readers who had long since shut Herrick's old-fashioned novels were opening Vardis Fisher's latest book with mingled anticipation and dread. After reading the first two volumes of his U. S. tetralogy (In Tragic Life, Passions Spin the Plot), they knew they could expect a vicariously agonizing experience, reported with such rare and serious candor that it would give them a painfully interesting three hours. Author Fisher is trying to write an honest book. Readers...
...that the U. S. and Britain had decided not to give wings to the tiger. That the tiger was proposing to sprout wings anyhow seemed to Mr. Quo a fact which he could accept with poetic stoicism. No one else in the world received with more perfect aplomb the dread, though long expected announcement of Japan's Privy Council last week that the Imperial Government denounces the Washington Naval Treaty, thus causing it to expire...