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...Since December, he said, he and two fellow scholars had been examining the Duchess' mummified body. Their verdict was death from natural causes-meningeal encephalitis, aggravated by tuberculosis, as evidenced by a tubercular lesion in the right lung and a spinal curvature. The experts reported no traces of poison...
Despite their shortages, the Dutch public will not tolerate a black market, though there is some illegal traffic in cigarets (the legal weekly ration is 40). Dealers in the "poison market," as it is labeled by the Government, are sent to Veenhuizen prison to make shoes, one of Holland's scarcest commodities...
...When the trend pointed to Roxas, the Philippine Press, a Manila tabloid, printed a boldface column recalling that Jose Vera, Osmena's campaign manager, had threatened suicide if his candidate lost. The paper called on Vera to make good, suggested poison, a hand grenade, or a banzai charge on Roxas headquarters. Weaseled Vera: "I said 'I'll bet my life Osmena will win!' I never said I would commit suicide...
...permission of the copyright owner, Chappell & Co., Ltd. *An A.P.H. anecdote: Once, when Lady Astor scolded a crapulous and corpulent M.P. for "pouring that awful poison into your stomach," he replied: "Madam, I have been drinking this stuff for many years, and I would be glad to put my stomach against yours...
...Trotsky's version, Stalin emerges as a man of inspired mediocrity, perfidy and political depravity. Trotsky's most sensational (and newest) charge: Stalin probably hastened the dying Lenin's death by administering poison. More routine charges: Stalin is a traitor to the revolution and to Communism because 1) he seized control of the Bolshevik Party machine and substituted ward politics for the inspired dynamics of proletarian revolution; 2) he turned the dictatorship of the proletariat into a totalitarian state; 3) he declared himself Lenin's heir and best disciple though Lenin, before his death, had broken...