Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortnight ago a man identifying himself as Durieux dropped into the Paris office of the London Daily Mail to tell his story. He not only claimed Red Hand credit for all the German cases but others as well, including a dart murder and a knifing in Geneva, a bombing in Rome that injured two children, and ship sinkings in Tangier. Ostend. Antwerp and other harbors. He hinted broadly that the Red Hand was also involved in the still unsolved murders of Tunisian Labor Leader Farhat Hached in 1952 and Algerian Lawyer Ould Aoudia this year...
...These accusations are all true," said the man called Durieux. "The Red Hand is proud to claim them. But we do not exult in murder. Our big regret is that innocent people have sometimes been victims of our counteractivity. But terrorism begets terrorism. The moment the Algerian rebels lay down their arms in complete surrender, the Red Hand will no longer need to exist...
Durieux claimed that the Red Hand had promised the French government not to operate on French soil, but the promise still left Germany (where Durieux is wanted for questioning) open to Red Hand activities. Why. asked Frankfurt's influential Allgemeine, has the Bonn government not addressed a stern word of protest to Paris? "There is a limit to what we should be made to endure from our French ally...
...praised the Swedish Academy for its "nonconformist" decision to give him the prize, snarled at those in the West who had said that he did not deserve it. Quasimodo pooh-poohed the Soviet oppression of Hungary, lashed out at Western publications that had hinted that he was a Red. Said the new Nobelman: "It is said that I am proud, conceited, and difficult to understand. The truth is that I am loved by the people...
...still not enough, and Case agreed. But when the teachers demanded another 10% raise this fall, he had to turn it down. Bard was still in the red. The teachers would have to wait for next year's drive to raise $2,900,000, one-third earmarked for faculty salaries. President Case knew full well what his decision might mean: the militant local chapter of the American Association of University Professors threatened a vote of no-confidence in the president. "I defend this right of theirs," said he, and awaited results. Last week they came...