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Last week Schoeters and his associates were being held for questioning, and a coroner's inquest of the watchman's death was scheduled to reopen. If Quebec's "liberators" are found criminally negligent, at least six "suicide commandos" will probably stand trial for murder...
Jeremy is right; it is the village women who set Augustine adrift on his voyage out of innocence. Shooting in the sea marsh, he has come upon the body of a young girl and carried it home to save it from being devoured by marsh rats. After the inquest, village tongues wag, stones are thrown, and Augustine leaves under a cloud of evil gossip to travel. He chooses Germany because he has cousins there...
...early editorial cheers that accompanied the anti-Castro rebels had subsided, along with the chorus of dismay that followed the news of disaster. Last week it was time for the inquest, and the U.S. press turned to the gloomy business of explaining what went wrong...
Last week, in the seaside resort of Blackpool, its beaches deserted by all but the sea gulls, its skies greyed over, some 2,000 Laborites assembled gloomily for Gaitskell's promised post-election "inquest." From the outset, Hugh Gaitskell took the offensive: Labor must drop its demands for nationalization or "be content to remain in permanent opposition...
...what Hugh Gaitskell said yesterday, because I don't believe in a monolithic society with public ownership of everything. But we'll never have order until we have a planned economy, an economy in which the nation determines its own priorities." On this note, the party inquest ended: Nye Bevan had chosen to differ but not to rebel, and Hugh Gaitskell had received an unenthusiastic mandate to bring Labor's philosophy up to date with mid-century Britain...