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Charges against Chen were many and grievous. When the Government general heard the story of the old woman who had been beheaded on Chen's order, he cried, "Really, it's hard to be kind to such people. We must make an example!" No heavy sword or ax could be found. A bayonet was considered, then rejected. Finally a heavy, short-bladed sickle, used to harvest wheat, was fashioned into an executioner's tool. While fellow informers watched, Hunchback Chen's head was hacked...
...maintain its armed forces at over a million men. Many (including the Communists) had urged Britain to abandon her commitments in Greece, Palestine and elsewhere, and to cut her Army to the bone. The Times of London replied: "A nation which lives by overseas trade and which, however grievous its present distress, yet possesses and controls much that is enviable cannot afford remedies of this kind...
...Certain more or less influential supporters of the Government are backing the idea of Government ownership. The proposers of this delicious plan are basing their case on the poor showing of the M.C.C. team in Australia. They declare that our failure in the test matches will have grievous repercussions on our prestige throughout the world and particularly with those cricket-playing races east of Suez, which already have suspicions that the Mother Country is decadent...
Prospect from Nanking. The Chinese National Government knew that in order to survive it had to restore China's economic life. In the areas under its control its efforts had been feeble and its failures grievous; but an overriding consideration was the fact that not even the most efficient government could have revived China as long as Communist rebel bands lay athwart the nation's main communication lines...
...Venerable to become Blessed and finally a Saint, two miracles are required at each stage. Miracles must be "of the first order": i.e., instantaneous healing of a grievous disease of a nonpsychological or nervous nature, attested to by doctors of known reputation, preferably non-Catholics...