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...stage seemed set for another Communist show trial. In the dock sat the accused, ready to plead guilty and to confess. On the courtroom wall, over the grey head of the comrade president of the tribunal, hung the Red star emblem with hammer & sickle, and under the flag was the portrait of the all-powerful leader. But the face of the leader seemed to have changed: it was not the slyly benign mask of Joseph Stalin; it was the square, rather brutal face of Josip Broz Tito...
...finds a man guilty of a capital crime, the death penalty is mandatory unless the jury recommends mercy. The first jury that heard Cecil Yankey's trial for the crowbar murder of 71-year-old Leroy Woodland in 1947 couldn't reach a verdict. Yankey agreed to plead guilty, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a one-judge court...
Important Point. Lean, tired-eyed Festival Manager Rudolf Bing could hardly deny the charges. But neither did he see any reason to plead guilty. Said he with a sigh: "You don't come to Edinburgh to hear Brahms's Second Symphony. If you're the type who goes to a festival, you've heard it. But you do come to hear the Royal Philharmonic under Beecham, or the Berlin, or the Vienna Philharmonic, or the Concertgebouw. It seems to me that what is played here is less important than who plays it. Whatever he thinks...
Vainly, Speaker Sam Rayburn got down on the floor himself to plead for "the whole loaf, not half a loaf." Such economizing, Rayburn cried, was just another sample of the "same caution, the same hesitation, the same wait-awhile" of prewar isolationism. "There's more talk around here about Communism, but it's a funny thing that when we start to do something about it those speaking the loudest against Communism are found wanting...
...Penknife, I Think." This week dapper John George Haigh himself walked jauntily up to the bench in a Lewes courtroom to plead "not guilty" to the charge of premeditated murder laid against him. He did not, however, deny the killings...