Word: executioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weakness v. Strength. The German High Command also had to watch Germany's north coast. At Yalta, the Big Three had promised blows on the Reich from "east, west, north and south." Last week in the U.S., an editorial in the Army and Navy Journal said that "the details...
The London Poles charged that: ¶Polish Communists, cooperating with the N.K.V.D. (Russian secret police), had organized special courts to purge "enemies of the people"-i.e., all political opponents of the Warsaw Government. ¶ The purge included the disarming and jailing of Home Army units, the execution of many of...
Under the guns of the Red Army, Bulgarian justice moved swiftly. In Sofia the trials of the war criminals ended with a bang-of rifles. Hardly had the "People's Courts" pronounced sentence on the "enemies of the people" for "dragging" Bulgaria into war than the firing squads lined...
As the Salt Lake City Tribune's first woman reporter, redheaded Florabel Muir wanted to become the first woman to cover an execution. Utah law said executions could be witnessed only by men. Florabel dickered, fumed, finally got the State Attorney General to rule that she was a reporter...
...minded former editor of the collaborationist Aujourd'hui. During the Nazi occupation, his editorials had exhorted Frenchmen to betray members of the Resistance. "Informing used to be a necessity," he said, "now it is an obligation." Suarez also liked to quote French Catholic Writer Joseph de Maistre: "The executioner is the keystone of modern society." Solemnly the Paris judge and his four assistants listened to a reading of Suarez' editorials. Then they passed sentence: for Editor Suarez, execution...