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Public reaction throughout India was solidly in favor of Nehru. With India's first general elections scheduled for January, some Tandon henchmen began to desert the boss, switched to Nehru. Said one: "We dislike Nehru's policies. But without Nehru campaigning for us, we wouldn't get 10% of the vote...
...village's 175 men, sent its women to concentration camps, demolished its houses. The Czechs did not forget Lidice. At war's end, they tracked down the "Butcher of Lidice," Karl Herman Frank, former Nazi protector of Bohemia and Moravia, hanged him with six of his Gestapo henchmen...
Membership so far is only about 500, but the French Communist Party has been worried enough by the movement to put one of its best tacticians in charge of fighting it; for weeks, Red henchmen have broken up the movement's meetings, have sent one of its leaders to the hospital. Last week, as France's election campaign got under way (Frenchmen will elect a new Parliament June 17), the French Titoists announced that they would run candidates in 30 departments, held their first big rally. At the meeting in Paris' gaudy Salle Wagram Communists threw tear...
...Easiest Thing." Thereafter, one of the sights of Mexico was the lusty old brigand and two or three of his henchmen driving daily in his 1920 Overland touring car from Parral to the ranch. One day in 1923, General Motors Dealer Gabriel Chavez and some friends were standing before the agency show window as Pancho rattled past. The men scowled. Some had lost brothers killed by Villa, others remembered womenfolk carried away. Chavez said: "I wonder if anybody will dare let him have...
...Arias. A general strike broke out. That night the National Assembly impeached Arias and swore in Vice President Alcibíades Arose. mena as President. Chichi sent Arias an ultimatum: get out or be booted out. Arnulfo holed up in the presidential palace with his henchmen. Police ringed the palace and began peppering the windows. After a four-hour battle, Arias gave up. As he left the palace under guard, he lifted his hand in a defiant salute...