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This just about lined up western Europe tacitly against Spain's Reds, caused them this week to stake everything on desperate sorties from Madrid, frantic efforts to inflict on the White besiegers quick losses heavy enough to make Europe change its mind...
...dispatches last week, was so far from angering Haile Selassie thereby that the Emperor asked him two days later to read off for His Majesty in English a radio broadcast to U. S. listeners in which the wily Ethiopian cried: "You people of the United States can help . . . inflict ... the international form of punishment, known as sanctions, upon the Italian people." But the King of Kings concluded, "I ask no one to take the sword against Italy...
...night and by day. . . . He shot his own child when the little one lifted a revolver that lay on the table. The playful hand might be the instrument of a woman's revenge and the Sultan knew better than anyone else that no tool is too weak to inflict a death wound. . . . This fear, this perpetual watchfulness, required that the concubines must be changed from night to night, so that his very pleasures were robbed of the ease of familiarity...
...there be a duty to provide for tenants evicted as a consequence of restricted production of the "poverty crop,'' on whom does such duty devolve-the economically enslaved, debt-ridden landlord or the Government responsible for policies that inflict poverty on all producers of such crop...
Only reduction of Comrade Yagoda's power seemed to be in transferring to Soviet courts the Ogpu's right to pronounce sentence of Death. Hereafter all grave cases are to come up before Bolshevik courts-martial, noted for their readiness to inflict the supreme penalty. In his new post as Commissar, Genrikh Yagoda can by fiat sentence any Russian to exile in Siberia or elsewhere, or to imprisonment for up to five years. Since it is unusual for a prisoner to live as long as five years in certain notorious Soviet prisons, notably that of Solovetskii...