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...fight to make the world safe for such tyranny as the British practice in Palestine-they send people to rot in concentration camps without trial or even charge, confiscate, search and loot without process of law. Americans once revolted for less...
...gangs overran the town, stoned, knifed and clubbed Europeans and non-Tudeh Persians, and pillaged and wrecked their homes. Then, at the riot's height, a band of 400 desert pirates crossed the muddy Shattel-Arab, raided the bazaar section and fled back across the river with their loot...
...Army's sweep through Manchuria swept up, among other industrial loot, a Japanese optical-goods factory at Mukden. On the guard-box at the factory entrance (see cut) Russian soldiers painted Prince Alexander Nevsky's triumphant boast after his Russians had crushed the invading Teutonic Knights at Lake Peipus...
...returning home from overseas, it hits him like a brick in the face. (Especially if he comes from Burma, where there was no looting: there was nothing to loot.) If Truth was the first casualty in the war, then ordinary Honesty also has been pretty badly mauled in the peace. The lurid signboard of this state of affairs is the Black Market...
...recovery of the Hesse crown jewels [TIME, June 17] makes interesting reading. As far as is known, the Hesse family was not strictly opposed to Naziism; I would even venture to say they profited by it. Will the Army return the loot to them or will it be credited to reparations? How about using it, and other assets taken from Germany, to pay indemnities for false arrest and loss of property to all those 800,000 D.P.s and to all those who were forced to leave Germany and lost their belongings? Money talks, and an appropriate sum as indemnity...