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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the Nazis and who are now ready to collaborate with the Americans on the same basis." Angry anti-Communist deputies chased him to the lobby; a Gaullist slapped him across both cheeks, drawing blood with a signet ring. Reinforcements rushed up and in no time a yelling, swaying free-for-all was on. Perspiring ushers in wing collars and tail coats barely managed to restore order...
Their heads shorn, their eyes red-rimmed, the 60 faced the court-martial last week. Seven were sentenced to death, 14 to life imprisonment; the rest were set free. Dimitrios got off with a life sentence. Said Anastasia Hadsis, whose husband was executed by a firing squad: "Judas has betrayed us and lives...
...Prague, another correspondent for a free press got a revealing look at the ways of dictatorship. Stepping out of the door of his room at the Hotel Flora, scholarly Hans Tütsch of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, one of Switzerland's biggest newspapers, saw a middle-aged woman carrying a big radio set. As he watched, she moved into room 130, next door. Tütsch later pointed out the woman to well-informed Czech friends, learned that she and her husband were both notorious police spies...
...loudspeaker, expectantly waiting for noises from next door. Said Tütsch: "They were very much surprised to see me." Indignantly, Tütsch marched to the office of Czech Press Boss Evzen Klinger, charged him with a "flagrant breach of confidence," and headed home to the free air of Switzerland...
...code of the Free State of Maryland requires that a public official taking the oath of office "declare orally his belief in the Christian religion, or, if he professes to be a Jew, his belief in a future state of rewards and punishments...