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While Iraq's young Regent Abdul Illah (whose approval is necessary for the death sentences) considered whether or not Communism can be stopped by hanging its leaders, Iraqi Communists showed signs that they were still very much alive. Their secret presses, silent during the trial, got out a pamphlet protesting an "action which Hitler dared not take, and only the Franco regime can equal...
...Hysteria. At the home of Mr. & Mrs. H. C. F. Harwood, near Regent's Park, one of London's few refrigerators (about one British family in 35 owns one) chose this crucial moment to spring a leak. To save their Pekingese bitch, Anna, from asphyxiation, the Harwoods hung her out of the window in a string bag. Whether Anna survived the treatment without hysterics was not reported, but as the weekend approached with cooling thunderstorms, the ever-helpful Evening Standard had a final word of advice for other dog lovers. "Dog hysteria," pronounced the Standard, "has its root...
What should rouse less comment than a friendly visit by a nephew to an uncle? But last week, when Hashimite nephew Prince Abdul Illah, Regent of Iraq, went to call on Hashimite uncle King Abdullah in the dingy Trans-Jordan capital of Amman, many an Arab politician fidgeted. That the Regent's fellow traveler was Nuri Es-Said Pasha, perennial Prime Minister of Iraq (temporarily out of office), did not add to their comfort. Arabs suspected that a familiar bee was buzzing in the Iraqis' sedarah.* With British prompting, they thought, the Hashimite family was talking of uniting...
...powerful enemies." "Realeboah morena!" (We are glad to see you, Lord!) shouted the Basuto men, while their women hung in the background howling in wild, horselike whinnies. As four "Sons of Moshesh"-descendants of the "Basuto Moses"-stood proudly by, regal Mantsebo Seeiso, "wife of the first hut" and regent for her ten-year-old nephew chief, greeted King George. "We do not wish to be separated from you and your just Government in any manner," she said...
...there was brazen disregard of the blackout in many stores and homes. The great grey pile of Buckingham Palace showed a few lights. In about half of the grimy little shops on Soho's back streets the lights were full on for everybody to see. But along majestic Regent Street soft, flickering candlelight illumined windows. Silversmiths and jewelers put their best Georgian candlesticks to use, but most of them took small items off the counters in fear of shoplifters in the semidarkness. Most of London's West End department stores were open, but there were few customers...