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...Denis Barber ('60) for his uncovering of the horrendous scandal that pollutes our student body. Let me also request that you withhold my name, as I do not wish publicity but only opportunity to express deepest gratitude to the Editor of the Yardling for bringing this abominable crisis, this heinous betrayal of our democratic rights and duties, to the attention of Fair Harvard. May I also wish Mr. Barber the best of luck in attaining more of what many of his compatriots feel he seeks--publicity. Certainly we must all be gratified to know that we need not call...
...courtroom last week, "stems from the fact that we have not told the truth for many years and that now we must tell it." Then, as the court handed down a series of lenient sentences (18 months to 6 years, and some suspensions) on young men charged with the heinous crime of fighting against the Communist authority, all Poland began to feel that the time might soon come when the truth about Poland would be told. Said an old Communist, blighted by years of purgings: "This is the beginning of a renaissance of justice in Poland...
...lords liked it or not. What many of the lords hoped was that a re-examination of capital punishment in the Commons would lead to a drastic revision of Britain's criminal code, providing at least for degrees of murder in the American style, only the most heinous of which would call for the death penalty. Approaching the same hope from a different angle, the Church of England bishops, with only one exception, voted in favor of abolition, even though the Archbishop of Canterbury had said: "The death penalty is a witness to the sacredness of human life...
...Khrushchev said. "We firmly rejected these questions as provocative. They knew very well that we are doing everything possible to correct past errors in a number of cases, and that people who were condemned innocently have been rehabilitated. Why then, did they drag out this and other heinous questions, so as to gain favor in the eyes of the reactionaries...
What next can we expect from our kissing cousins, the English? Possibly another Makarios? Or more of this heinous, hogwash courtship of "K," "B" and Malenkov? Maybe it is high time for us to make a new inventory of our allies...