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...week, amid clouds of red smoke, Mitchell's shots were still echoing on the Danube. According to the Budapest trade union daily Nepszava, "Composer" Howard Mitchell had provided "rhapsodic variations" for 16 cannon and orchestra at the urgent request of "Minister of War" Louis Johnson, who wanted some "martial and blood-stirring" music to honor U.S. armed forces...
...remembered that . . . applicants were encouraged and carefully selected. They came from fighting ships and battlefields as well as universities. These men were subject to military regulations. Court-martial threatened the unruly, . and scholastic failure resulted in immediate reassignment as enlisted personnel. Are only those who carry guns of value to their country...
Until a few weeks ago the 11,000 citizens of the sober little town of Saint-Junien in central France got along all right with their Communist mayor. Then M. le Maire Martial Pascaud decided to make a gesture of obeisance to his masters in the Kremlin. Tottering old Communist Leader Marcel Cachin paid a visit to Saint-Junien. To mark the occasion, Mayor Pascaud marched a party of 100 local Communists down Saint-Junien's main street, the Boulevard Leon Gambetta, to hang new signs on each corner rechristening the street Boulevard Joseph Staline. When the street...
...Despite martial law and political stalemate, the killings which characterized Gómez' election campaign had not ended. Bragged one police lieutenant: "We're killing a thousand a week in the country. We figure we've got 15,000 to go." In Bogota particularly, murders, rapes and other violence by the police seemed to be increasing...
...civilian. "The President receives his compensation for his services rendered as Chief Executive of the nation, not for the individual parts of his duties," he ruled. ". . . The President does not enlist in and is not inducted or drafted into the armed forces. Nor is he subject to court-martial or other military discipline...