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...court withdrew for half an hour. When they returned, the president read out the sentence: "In the name of His Royal Highness Umberto di Savoia, Lieutenant General of the Realm, this court has found Peter Koch a traitor, guilty of collaboration with the enemy. ... It orders the sentence to be published in the official gazetteer and in the Roman press."' When the judge finished, Koch smiled. Newsmen crowded around him. He recognized acquaintances and some of his brother officers. Said Koch to TIME Correspondent William Rospigliosi, whom he had interrogated while Rospigliosi was a political internee: "I am very...
...should be used against Japan rose again in the U.S. press. Among military thinkers, the consensus was that gas would save Allied lives if poured into cave defenses in the enemy's home islands. However, the final decision did not lie with military thinkers, but in the realm of politics and public morals. The U.S. has a great and valued reputation throughout the world as a civilized, humane nation ; in the last analysis the people themselves would have to decide whether to abandon that moral position...
...private Ross realm embraces a minuscule archipelago (a score or more coral islets), lying in the vastness of the Indian Ocean midway between Australia and Ceylon. The Cocos Islands have belonged to the Ross dynasty ever since John Clunies-Ross I, Scottish skipper of an East Indiaman, settled there with his family in 1827. The Rosses are absolute rulers of their coconut-growing Malay subjects. By royal fiat the Cocos Islands positively admit no immigrants or ever re-admit emigrants...
...year lease granted by Queen Victoria) have been benevolent monarchs. Last week King John Clunies-Ross V, 19, was still in England with his mother, Queen Rose, his brother, "Prince" Charles and his sisters, the "Princesses" Elizabeth and Inin. As soon as he can, he will return to his realm to receive the genuflections of his subjects in a crownless coronation ceremony. The kings of Cocos usually wear old straw hats...
...governor: 70-year-old Dr. Hans Fuchs, a Catholic who had been a pre-Nazi Oberprädsident of the Rhine Province. His realm: an area of 14,600 square miles with a peacetime, predominantly Catholic population...