Word: eyewitnesser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Due to the fact that I did not have TIME, May 31, I missed seeing the piece [on Prince Bernhard's auto accident: "Trying to pass a road truck . . . he zigged when he should have zagged"]. I now am receiving [copies of it] from quite a few friends in...
¶ April 21: Dulles returned to Paris for pre-Geneva talks with Bidault and Eden. Two days later, a cable arrived from Indo-China which the British privately refer to as "Navarre's panic cable." Navarre said Dienbienphu was on the verge of falling, could be saved only by...
Another Briton, Captain Gerald Selby Lewis Griffiths, 43, was court-martialed in a wooden hut in the heart of the Mau Mau badlands. He was accused of murdering a captured Negro forest worker suspected of belonging to Mau Mau, and of ordering his African rifleman to "shoot anyone you want...
If space permitted I might mention mass arrests, crushing taxation, the omnipresent gun with red tassels, the three Fs: Fraud, Fear and Force. I can verify all of these facts because I was an eyewitness to the subjugation of a free people to virtual slavery.
Another eyewitness sent a description to relatives in Lima, Ohio, who gave it to the Lima News. "About 15 minutes after shot time," he wrote, "the island on which the bomb had been set off started to burn, and it turned a brilliant red . . . Within six hours, an island that...