Word: punished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the bleak, high-walled jail at Werl, the British hold reluctantly to the remnant symbols of a once-firm resolution. The remnants are 130 convicted Nazi war criminals. They are the surviving handful of men the British once vowed to punish. That British passion is now spent; in its place is a German passion to set the criminals free. Last week Henri Nannen, editor of a Hamburg picture weekly, Der Stern, shockingly dramatized the issue...
Last week the party moved to punish the culprits. A communiqué itemized their sins; they added up to "fractionalism." Marty was fired from the party secretariat, but kept his job in the politburo. Tillon was fired from the politburo, but remained on the central committee. Both were given a month to recant and confess in approved Communist style. Only the fact that Old Heroes Marty and Tillon still have many followers inside the party saved them from immediate disgrace and expulsion. Said the party communiqué: the central committee is determined "to do everything to help comrades in error...
...violence in his homeland, suggested a formula for peace. Its gist: Protestants should agree to a missionary quota, stop publicizing persecution unless new attacks occur, limit preaching to churches, avoid attacking Catholic dogmas and priests. The Roman Catholic Church and the pro-Catholic government should agree to denounce and punish anti-Protestant assaults, guarantee freedom of worship...
...They don't even get out to look at a fender." But more often, people experienced a wild sense of frustration. Said Dr. J. P. Hilton, a Denver psychiatrist: "The driver behind a traffic crawler gets angry. His reason departs. He wants to ram through, to pass, to punish the object of his anger." Did the doctor feel the same way? "And how," he said, and shuddered. "I dream of wide highways and no automobiles -no automobiles at all." But though postwar motorists were gradually becoming horn-blowing neurotics with tendencies toward drinking, cat-kicking and wife-beating, there...
Answers, Please. One protested Soviet espionage in Sweden and demanded that the Reds make their diplomats stop spying. The second demanded retribution for the "act of violence perpetrated by Soviet military aircraft" and steps "to punish those responsible for the outrage...