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Pale, plain, 30-year-old Ralph Kastner did not have much use for his father. Socially and politically, father Hermann was an opportunist. After Ralph's mother had divorced him in 1944, father Hermann managed a retrial which declared his wife guilty, hounded her and their daughter out of Dresden. When he married again, Hermann chose blowzy, peroxide-blonde Trude Mirtsching, a stenographer with excellent Soviet connections. A year later, conniving Hermann had worked up from a minor political boss to be Deputy Chairman of the Economic Commission, forerunner of the East German government...
Last week the case was once again before the courts. The Supreme Court of the new state of Israel was officially considering a duly filed petition asking for a retrial of Jesus of Nazareth...
...night before Isorni's last visit Pétain felt stifled and decided that he was suffocating. Obsessed with the idea that he might die in the night with the record not yet set straight, he promptly penned a letter ordering his lawyer to demand a retrial. "I have never accepted my condemnation," he wrote. "I benefited from a grace I did not ask for." Next day he was as healthy as ever, but still sulking. "I was right all along [during the Vichy period]," he told Isorni. "I was more of a resister than anybody...
...Oklahoma court remanded these three cases for retrial, ruling that no competent evidence had been submitted that the Communist Party or the defendants had either sought to overthrow the government by force and violence or advocated such doctrine. It is fortunate that the higher court could sense the weakness of a law so susceptible to wide interpretation when it deplored prosecution for opinion and made a plea for the wisdom of giving people "an opportunity to let off a little steam . . . against the possible wrong-doings of the government." But, though the interpretation was condemned, the law itself was upheld...
...stem the tide of criticism and court maneuver thus engendered, an NLRB spokesman last week disclosed that in these cases the board had relied upon a Supreme Court finding two years ago. This was at the time that the case passed upon last fortnight was heard and remanded for retrial to a lower court. Ruled the Supreme Court, on May 25, 1936: "While it would have been good practice to have the [Department of Agriculture] examiner prepare a report and submit it to the Secretary and the parties, and to permit exceptions and arguments addressed to the points thus presented...