Word: martial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow's Delight. At week's end Ala called the Majlis into special session, to ask its approval of his proclamation of martial law. Editor Fatimi called the step illegal...
...Corporal John Keith Waller, British Army, who deserted to Berlin's Eastern sector a year ago as a "fighter for peace" but returned to his unit in West Berlin last week, "fed up" with Communism. This week a British court-martial sentenced him to two years in jail...
Tension over Russia at this moment probably helps the Socialists stay in office. Britain accepts the necessity of preparing for war, but so dreads the prospect that she is determined that no action of hers shall in any way provoke war. People sense that Churchill, with his martial spirit and forthright ways, might somehow hasten a war. Churchill, sensing this mood, is careful in the House not to sound more warlike than the Socialists. His recent attack on the armament program flopped because of this attitude. He obviously thought that a 15-day call-up of reserves was inadequate...
...deal to do with putting his country where it is. The violent crusade of the National Front for immediate nationalization of Iran's oil, the threats against those who disagreed, had brought political assassination back to Iran and had made Iran's Communists bold. Last week, under martial law after the murders of Premier AH Razmara and Education Minister Dr. Abdul Zanganeh, Teheran was quiet, but police picked up 25 gun-toting...
Governor Baeza Alegria, who had ordered hundreds of arrests, was replaced by Air Force General Felipe Acedo Colunga, remembered as a ruthless court-martial prosecutor following the 1934 revolt of Asturian miners. Last week Barcelona shops opened, workmen went back to their jobs, and the 15,000 police wandered about the streets, weapons conspicuously visible...