Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Easier Sentences. The fact is that on the record, U.S. military abroad generally get lighter sentences when tried and convicted under local laws than under their own. In Germany last year, seven G.I.s were tried by a U.S. court-martial for rape. The Germans started to protest bitterly that they should try the case, fell silent when the court-martial sentenced four of the defendants to life imprisonment, the others to 40 years. The maximum sentence for first-offense rape under German law: three years...
Flaming Haystacks. The Red leaders put their ink-stained thumbs down firmly on all plans to relieve the valley's troubles by mechanization, industrialization and population shifting, instead urged a plan by which local "Chambers of Labor" would control the crops planted by the farmers, and assign the men to seed, cultivate and harvest them. "If we agree to this," protested the landholders, "the Communists will run our farms...
Capitulation. Fortnight ago, with some 60% of their beet crop already lost, a large group of local landowners were summoned to the city hall in Red-controlled Stienta and, with an angry mob howling outside, they capitulated to the Communist terms. By last week most of the farmers in the district had done the same, despite the organized holders' Farm Association warning that all such individually signed agreements were void. The farmers were all but bankrupt. The valley workers had lost more in crop shares than they could hope to regain in years of unremitting effort with...
...island-wide sabotage, the government made reprisals, e.g., in Havana, the bodies of two men were found hanging with bombs at their feet. Protesting, Santiago's Roman Catholic archbishop said he viewed the rebel violence and the reprisals "with disgust." The local Rotary Club joined in to deplore the case of "four youths, arrested by individuals identifying themselves as members of the Security Corps, who were later found murdered...
...girl (Eleanor Parker) married to a British bacteriologist (Bill Travers) but carrying on with a French business man (Jean Pierre Aumont) in Hong Kong. When her husband finds out, he (of course) packs her off posthaste to the nearest outbreak of cholera. Her character immediately begins to improve. The local white trash (George Sanders) philosophically assures her that Schnapps ist gut für die Cholera. But at the sight of a corpse the heroine clutches her throat theatrically and gasps: "It makes everything else seem horribly trivial...