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...commonplaces of existence - setting the table, visiting the neighbors, coming home from work - and the furniture of the rooms, the clothes of the women, petting the dog, playing the piano, take on a sultry, Sunday-supplement sexual significance. Her brief, artificial scenes are of sudden quarrels, abrupt endearments, pell-mell melodrama. But her emotional thunderstorms never clear the air after her emotional dog days...
...London last week well-bred, well-fed Herbert Claiborne Pell, U.S. member of the United Nations Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes, continued to shuffle his papers, read reports, collect data. But his time, and the American people's, was running out. The corpses of three German officers dangling in the cold market square at Kharkov, swiftly tried and swiftly hanged by the Russians for the slaughter of Russian civilians, posed a question to Americans. What responsibility shall the U.S. take in the punishment of the war guilty...
...Death? For Torture? Herbert Claiborne Pell, U.S. delegate on the Commission, says frankly that he is in favor of being tough. Gallup polices in Britain recently voted: 40% to shoot Axis big shots outright; 18% for trial; 15% for torture; 11% for imprisonment or exile; the rest for miscellaneous solutions, including one Briton in a hundred who would just let them...
...other flank of the South Pacific front-in New Guinea-U.S. and Australian forces humped towards oft-bombed Salamaua. The Jap's outer defenses along the jungly ridges protecting the Salamaua airdrome suddenly cracked. "All at once," said dispatches, the Japs evacuated their positions and retreated pell-mell to last-ditch defenses around the Salamaua airdrome...
...Four weeks ago, the President had given a shot in the arm to the United Nations Commission for the Investigations of War Crimes by appointing as American Commissioner, former U.S. Minister to Portugal Herbert Pell (TIME, July...