Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In its charting of the ebb and flow of war's malignant tides, the movie ruthlessly sends its heroine into action for both sides; yet she proves to be neither turncoat nor indecisive fool nor coward. Dr. Helga Reinbeck (played with passionate intensity by Europe's fast-rising...
Take Care. For Charles there was nothing left but to show his subjects how a king could die. At the trial he pleaded the divine right of kings, denied the right of Commons to try him at all. All his life he had stammered, but on this occasion there was...
Meanwhile, Cromwell was having his own troubles: as late as 10 a.m. on the day of execution, he could not find a qualified executioner. Thirty-eight army sergeants, offered ?100 and rapid army advancement, turned down the job. Said one: "I would not do it for all the City of London." Even the common hangman refused, although he was first offered a ?200 bonus and then threatened with death by burning. It is still not known who did the job, so heavily covered were the headsman and his assistant. To William Juxon, the Church of England's Bishop...
Pinning tke Rap. So long as Stalin lived, the Leningrad Case was a "quiet purge": nothing was said of it in print. It was first used as a weapon after Stalin's death, in the overthrow and execution of Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria. Even then, mention of the...
Khrushchev made his point clearer: the accused had had a hand in the famous "Leningrad Case." This was a conspiracy that had cost the life of Politburocrat Nikolai Voznesensky, Soviet Russia's chief economic planner, in 1948-49 (during Stalin's reign). After Khrushchev became First Party Secretary...