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...Japanese and on harrowing night marches. Then he learned what war was really like: he was ordered to make a stand at a point code-named Blackpool. Outnumbered and outgunned. Masters' men were slowly driven back. "I wanted to cry," he writes, "but dared not, could only mutter 'Well done, well done.' " The brutality of battle numbed both armies. "A Cameronian lieutenant fell head-first into a weapon pit and two Japanese soldiers five yards away leaned weakly on their rifles and laughed, slowly, while the officer struggled to his feet, slowly, and trudged up the slope...
...centuries, the peasants of Sullupucyo have accepted their lot. But in the past year, leaders of the Communist-lining Social Progressive Movement (M.S.P.) have succeeded in organizing a number of peasant unions. For the first time, Luna's peasants are beginning to mutter that they will refuse to work the four days for the hacienda unless they get more for it-and will not be evicted. When Luna had 18 squatters arrested recently for trespassing, the hacienda's peasant union, through their lawyer in Cuzco, got the men freed. Hacendado Luna does not see any need for agrarian...
...Jewish teen-ager accused of stealing cherries from an orchard: "The screams lasted about ten or 15 minutes, then stopped. The door opened, and Eichmann came out. He was a little disheveled; his shirt was sticking out, and I am almost sure that I saw bloodstains. I heard Eichmann mutter two words in German, 'Ubriges Mistvolk' [superfluous garbage people]." Minutes later, the "swollen, bloody" corpse of the teen-ager was dragged away...
...leftists have gotten the red-carpet treatment in Peking. One of them is Francisco Juliāo, powerful leader of the Red-tinged Peasant Leagues, which battens on the misery of the rural millions in poverty-stricken northeast Brazil. After a Juliāo speech, the peasant poor now mutter grimly about land reform and sing, "What harm is there in a ship/Carrying our common Brazilian coffee/And selling it to a China/Where there is no Chiang Kai-shek...
...about 125 U.S. and Canadian businessmen (mostly associates of Eaton's) and a flock of Tass reporters. Though Khrush got a chance to sing his Communist theme, most of the guests deliberately passed up his offer to answer questions from the floor; one disgruntled guest was heard to mutter during K.'s speech: "Oh, sit down, you s.o.b...