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...Yugoslavia went egalitarian. A government decree, effective Nov. 1, closes all special food stores that serve party members and officials. Urban Yugoslav Communists will have to carry ration cards like other city dwellers. Special rest homes and resorts for the elect will be closed. Government agencies are forbidden to buy carpets, curtains, pictures and other items of interior decoration. After Nov. 1, nobody will be able to get free gasoline...
...know each other. The Gestapo had arrested all but one of the British officers who belonged to the countess' intelligence group. London had ordered her immediate return to England. The count whispered: "I must embrace you once before you go." "We are in public," Yvonne said. "It is forbidden." Before she walked on, Bernard had just time to reassure her that the family jewels had been taken to a safe place...
...Russia , . . there is no trace of formal Jewish organization or institutions . . . There is not a single Jewish newspaper or periodical throughout the length and breadth of the Soviet Union. Hebrew is forbidden. Religious instruction and everything that smacks of religious tradition is under the same ban . . . Everything Jewish is either eliminated or else suffocated under a heavy blanket of official silence...
...March 1, 1919, people gathered throughout Korea to hear the Declaration of Independence read, to wave their forbidden Korean flags and to shout "Mansei." Then they were supposed to disperse quietly and go home. In many places they never got a chance to disperse quietly. Japanese troops charged into crowds, shooting, swinging swords and mutilating their victims with firemen's hooks. In the bloody week of Japanese "mopping up" operations, it was estimated that 200,000 Koreans had been arrested, 7,000 killed...
Parks are known generally for their friendly, relaxed atmosphere, and it is hard to see why the University should be so anxious to keep such feeling out of the Yard. Lounging on soft grass is one of the most elemental of human pleasures, and it should not be forbidden without the strongest reasons...