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Other Soviet-style billingsgate: "Foulest of words . . . ancient and hackneyed gossip ... phantasmagoria of phrases . . . delirium of an impudent person . mercenary from head to heels . . . this savage . . . bandit . . depraved souls . . . product of the Stock Exchange and black market . . . scum. . . . How can you influence him? Such persons are not even beaten, so as not to stain one's hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONS: Brooks, the Bandit | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

Uncommon Man. Non-Reubens were also heard. "Damn the men who look back," cried OPAdministrator Paul Porter. Former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau stared fixedly into chaos. The Ohio C.I.O. Council wrung its hands over the "foulest deed . . . done by a wicked alliance of Northern reactionary Republicans and Southern Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Voice of Reuben | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...bill, which differed little from the existing draft law, was okayed by the Army. But it horrified Colorado's lumbering Senator Ed Johnson. Cried he: "Only beardless youths will be conscripted. . . ." Every "boy" drafted will be "thrown in the path of diseased prostitutes and lewd women" in the "foulest human cesspools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dangerous Bill | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...Foulest & Vilest." First witness was Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, of the British medical corps ("I have never seen anything that would touch [Belsen]. . . . There were piles of corpses lying all over the camp. . . . The huts were full to overflowing with prisoners in every state of emaciation and disease. There was every known variety of disease in that camp Dead lay where they fell . . ."). His testimony would have been enough to hang most of the 45 defendants (who are charged with an average 1,000 murders each). But there were other witnesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Inferno on Trial | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...Harold Le Druillenec, British: "When the British tanks came, I was having my first meal in five days. I was eating grass. . . . I think I can fairly describe Belsen as the foulest and vilest spot that ever soiled the surface of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Inferno on Trial | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

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