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...shut himself off from the well-wishers who had turned his town house into a public place. Only for leathery jibaros (farmers) like Eustachio Pérez Guzman was the door still open. Eustachio had vowed that if victory came to the Popular Democratic Party, he would go and kneel before Don Luis. To finance the journey, he had sold two of his six chickens, set out from his remote western hamlet of Isabela...
...Well," said worldly Don Luis to Eustachio when he heard his story, "if you must kneel, there is nothing to stop me from kneeling too." A cousin of Muñoz urged him to pay Eustachio for the two chickens he had sold. Said Don Luis: "When a man gives you his soul, do you give him change...
...refused. The pair ordered the big farmer and the two white-faced women outside and into the car, told them to take off their clothes. The automobile moved off through the darkness, finally pulled up beside a cornfield. Daniels forced the Niebels to walk out among the rustling stalks. "Kneel down," he ordered. They knelt-naked, shivering, sick with terror. West shot Mrs. Niebel in the stomach. His pistol jammed. Daniels shot her in the head. He fired twice more, and Niebel and his daughter toppled over, dying. The two gunmen walked back to their car and drove away...
...Kneel Before Sitting. Bishop Oxnam turned next to the menace of Communism. A "holy war" against the Communists is no answer, he said; the evil must be fought where it grows-in poverty and economic injustice. Nor can Christians "defeat totalitarianism by allying ourselves with totalitarianism, whether it be ecclesiastical or political." Ideas cannot be shattered by atomic bombs, but only by better ideas. "Justice and brotherhood within the conditions of freedom are like bells. They sound the death knell of Communism...
...there anything else?" demanded the prosecutor. There was nothing. He gestured toward the guards. Yoshiko, upon order, faced about and walked nine paces forward. A guard with a rifle came up behind her. "Kneel down," he shouted. The echo rang out from the prison wall. Yoshiko knelt with the poise of a girl being introduced at court. The guard raised his gun, fired one shot into the back of her head. Yoshiko pitched awkwardly on her face. The morning...