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Cries for Blood. The Indonesian government was convinced that many Dutchmen were supporting rebel groups in the hills in a last-ditch fight against the new republic. In January 1954 it began to round up about 30 Dutch suspects, and Jungschlaeger was arrested and thrown in jail. Thirteen months later, he was haled into a dirty, steaming courtroom in Djakarta and charged with leading and supplying two terrorist bands of rebels, with the help of the U.S. embassy, the British, and assorted Dutch agencies. The prosecutor asked the death penalty...
...trained in Marxism, Mollet has no serious quarrel with many of their economic doctrines. He simply considers them "representatives of the Soviet Union." One of his favorite sayings is that the Communists "are not left but East." One of France's most ardent "Europeans" and a last-ditch supporter of EDC (he has never quite forgiven his new ally Mendès for letting EDC die), Mollet is also a dedicated friend of the Atlantic Alliance. "If there had been five U.S. soldiers in Europe in 1939, war would never have happened," he says...
...special review of the cadet corps. For both men it was a big day; both had worked hard for it, both had waited for it eagerly. There, on a site that lay along Van Fleet's "Golden Line" the location of what was to be 1951's last-ditch stand against the Communists -the four-year-old academy last week graduated its first class. Guns boomed, the band blared, sabers flashed in the sun. "Today," said President Rhee. "is just like a dream...
...fire stormed downhill through the basin, Geil sent in a picked crew with curt orders to dig a last-ditch firebreak. His orders: the crew must be prepared to hole up in the cliffs, to live without supplies, lay through the fire if trapped,* but "tie up" the basin. They did. Last week a ranger and three Indians with 1,200 ft. of line clambered into Kings Canyon (which drops 4,000 ft. in two miles) to keep the fire from shooting along the canyon's wall. Hemmed in, the fire came at last under control. Loss...
...gets it by marrying Attila the Hun and luring Hagen and his cohorts to a Hunland banquet that becomes a blood bath. Rich with omens and enchantments, brimming with the life, dress and manners of the time, The Twelve Pictures also breathes life into a profounder theme-the last-ditch war of the pagan spirit v. the Christian faith. Author Simon writes a slightly cramped neo-archaic prose, but few living writers can dip a reader's mind so wholly and fascinatingly in a sense of the past...