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Local police quavered impotently as 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...
Path's End. Last Spring Polish units of the Red Army overran the camp. They found Largo Caballero gravely ill. As soon as he could travel, the Russians hurried him by plane to Paris, where doctors removed a nephritic kidney, cut off a diseased leg, marveled as the old man clung to life, week after week. To Spaniards who came to see him the old warrior talked bravely of a restored Republic, though he knew he would play no part in Spain's future. Early one morning last week, in his 76th year, Francisco Largo Caballero closed...
...does not want to make Germany a nation of foresters and goatherds, as envisaged by former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. It wants Germany to be able to sustain itself, but only after the neighbors its armies overran have been given a head start toward recovery...
When the Red Army overran Pomerania, Karl Schwarzenberg lost his geese and chickens, two or three cows. In July, when the Polish military government took over, his horses and bank account were confiscated. He was given 24 hours to leave his farm. With his five children, two to 14 years old, he set out, some of his household goods piled in a hand cart, and wandered on foot for two weeks. Somewhere he was forced to leave one child in a hospital with scarlet fever...
When the Japs overran Peiping in 1937, Yenching, just five miles away, became an oasis of free learning: the Japs then were too sensitive to U.S. opinion to move in. But they ordered President Stuart to hoist the puppet-regime flag and to give personal "thanks" to the Jap militia for the invasion. Dr. Stuart refused, and got away with it. For three years before Pearl Harbor he was used to transmit peace feelers between the Chinese and the Japs. At 8:20 a.m., Dec. 8, 1941, Dr. Stuart's freedom ended...