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To dig more coal, the Communists have organized a vast slave labor program. Polish mines have been reinforced by convicts, military conscripts, students who fail their examinations and members of the SP (Service to Poland) youth organization. Czechoslovakia drafted 77,500 minor bureaucrats into the pits in one sweeping purge...
Ousted Czech Vice Premier Rudolf Slansky is still awaiting trial in Prague for crimes vaguely described as "activities against the state." Last week a clearer picture of the crimes, and of a growing Communist crusade, emerged from a speech made by Communist Premier Antonin Zapotocky. The speech, an appeal to...
One of the militarists' more vocal spokesmen is bullet-headed, bullet-riddled ex-Colonel Shigenobu Tsuji (30 times wounded in campaigns in China, Burma, Malaya and India). Tsuji crackles as he talks, speaking, as he puts it in the Japanese phrase, "with his drawers down." He is on the...
Alfred Kazin, on the other hand, questions the whole modern tendency to judge a style in terms of abstract standards of readability without asking what it means to the writer himself. He condemns the critical attitude "intent on getting the audience to understand quickly, rather than on encouraging the writer...
In a sweeping purge, the President got rid of nine top generals, including Army Chief Angel Solari and the commanders of Argentina's three armies, plus 25 officers of lesser grade. All had retired at their own request, said a deadpan communique, in order to speed up promotion for...