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...armed members of the Iron Guard (Ku Klux Rumanian organization) roughly asked the stationmaster whether the train would stop at Timisoara. "Yes, I swear it," he replied, but slyly managed to dot-dash from his station a warning to Carol II that his only chance was to run the gantlet of the Iron Guard...
...their group being sunk far out in the Atlantic the day after their armed escorts left them. A ship carrying 320 British poor children to Canada was sunk off Ireland, all hands being saved except the purser. Italy last week declared that some of her submarines had run the gantlet past Gibraltar to join in raiding Atlantic sea lanes. Thus, by sea as by air, Britain's position grew tougher & tougher...
What would she do? To try to run that Allied gantlet would be suicide. Spee had had time to make herself seaworthy, but not battleworthy. A rumor got around that Captain Langsdorff would slip her across the Plata's mouth to Buenos Aires, there perhaps to intern...
...train still in motion. Joe Stalin could take it. When his hovel-mates accidentally set fire to some stolen stuff he had hid in the stove, he put a hand in the flames, salvaged only one 500-ruble note. When he was captured and was told to run a gantlet of soldiers swinging riding crops, he walked through, head high, holding a book under his arm. Last week this man was trading in empires...
There is a certain amount of deplorable lynching in our own Southland, but every intelligent American vigorously condemns this practice. Yet, bad as this is, the number of deaths resulting from lynching do not amount to more than 25 per year. In Hitlerland, they have a "sport" known as Gantlet Running, (TIME, Dec. 5th) where 62 innocent people were tortured and twelve killed in one week, the figure running into thousands each year...