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...back. And then maybe the billy-swinging cops will think back to the days when they broke heads to stop a good-humored crowd, and wonder if it was the single answer. For they will find no friendly crowd, but a surly one, expecting the fight, and then the nightstick will be the only...
Friends of the students said both policemen ran after him and caught him, and, after pinning him on the ground, one knocked him unconscious with his nightstick. The other student approached the two policemen and asked to go to the station with his friend. He, too, was seized and held against a wall until a paddy wagon arrived...
...When nightstick-wielding cops broke up the Communist "peace" rally in Manhattan's Union Square three weeks ago, New York Post Editor James Wechsler sounded off. Onetime Communist Wechsler, now a member in good standing of the anti-Communist left, criticized the other New York newspapers for their news stories and editorials on the riot, accused them of condoning "the savagery exhibited by some police officers." Wrote Wechsler: "The claim that the initial [police] ban-and the ensuing violence-were justified because the Communists support Russian aggression in Korea is dangerous doctrine . . . Communist talk is less menacing than curtailment...
Requirements of the shooting schedule provided frequent opportunities for the gendarmes to raise a guestioning nightstick, but they stood by in quiet confusion as extras paraded a naked mannekin before the camera. "All part of the script," technicians explained...
...make his own distinctly Russian substitute for a "form of social order," Czar Nicholas I (called "The Nightstick") in 1826 decided to create a new thing, a secret police which later came to be called the Okhrana (Guard). The inception of this dreadful institution took place in a scene of sentimental horror. When the Okhrana's first chief, Count Alexander Benckendorff, reported to the Czar for instructions, the monarch pulled a white handkerchief from his pocket and said: "Dry the tears of the oppressed. May your conscience and the conscience of your subordinates ever remain as stainless as this...