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Kangaroo Courts. When the order to move went to the next pen-Compound 78-the inmates, who had watched the battle of 76, lined up meekly and were taken away. Compound 77 was next, and it was here that Bull Boatner made his one tactical mistake of the week. He gave 77 a day's advance notice of the move, and the Communists inside used their last night to execute antiCommunists. After the evacuation, 16 bodies were found, hacked, beaten or strangled, tossed into water-filled ditches, jammed into metal drums, and even hidden under hut floors. Compound...
After being herded into the small pens, the battered survivors of Compound 76 had still not had enough. Three times in one day they disobeyed orders; each time they were brought to heel by tear-gas barrages. One antiCommunist, hardly more than four feet tall, seized his chance to scramble under the wire of his pen, lacerating his back but getting away just ahead of clutching Communist fingers. He said he had been sentenced to death, and he then put the finger on 102 members of kangaroo courts. These malefactors were dragged out by U.S. guards for isolation...
...cartoon depicting Dean Acheson . . . as a 'bacterial bug.'" Moraes noted that Chinese who speak English with an American accent are nervous about where they got their education; he met one Columbia-educated Chinese interpreter who, while favoring American-style clothes and flaunting an American fountain pen, carefully made it clear that she had "hated every minute" of her stay...
...Milan three years ago drew record crowds and won wholehearted praise from Italy's usually wary critics. Wrote Leonardo Borgese in the respected Corriere della Sera: "Buttini is no fake. If he has any fault, it is that of being too good." Last week, with 114 of his pen & ink drawings on show at Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, U.S. gallerygoers could understand the enthusiasm...
...Cremated Pen. As the war dragged on and news trickled in of mass deportations of Jews, Anne became desperate. She had terrifying fantasies about the death of Jewish friends. Often she saw "rows of good, innocent people accompanied by crying children [walk] on and on . . . bullied and knocked about until they almost drop." With appalling prescience she wrote that "there is nothing we can do but wait as calmly as we can till the misery comes to an end. Jews and Christians wait, the whole earth waits; and there are many who wait for death." When her pen fell into...