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...grislier fate awaited three Hungarians. Charged with plotting a rightist coup against the coalition government, they were sentenced to a hanging a la Hongroise. In this procedure, the condemned man stands on a stool before a high post topped by a hook. A thin rope is put about the victim's neck and pulled taut about the hook. Then the stool is kicked from under the victim. His neck is not broken by the drop. As a measure of mercy, the executioner sharply twists the victim's head while a couple of assistants pull his legs down...
...Peru's anti-Apra press ever printed anything about Haya, this last injunction would have been news. Apra had often used gangster methods in politics; it had been blamed for the still unsolved murder last January of Rightist Editor Francisco Grana (TIME, Jan. 20). Perhaps now Peru's dominant party was going to restrain itself. At least the Jefe had given the word...
...stark and undeniable facts that Greece stands desperately in need of foreign aid. Despite the efforts of UNRRA, millions of Greeks are starving today. Thanks to the inefficiency of the government, Greece has no income tax, no rationing, and no price controls. The violent fighting between the rightist X-ites and the leftist EAM, if allowed to break out into full-scale civil war would mean the final tragedy for a whole people, whose heroism in the war against the Axis is excelled by no other. Interference in Greece by an outside agency of sufficient wealth and force, then...
...Middle. Leftists screamed. Rightist landowners replied that the alternative was to let Communists, who had already grievously hurt the Chilean economy by endless strikes in coal, copper and nitrates, take over the whole business of agricultural production. Gonzalez and his Radicals, who favored genuine, non-political unions, were caught in the cross fire...
Agriculture Secretary Miguel Concha has led the Communist agitation for legalized farm unions. Last week Gonzalez Videla had on his desk a bill, passed by Congress' rightist majority, designed to block Concha's efforts and to maintain existing farm labor conditions. The bill restricted each union to the fundo (estate) where its members worked, forbade them to federate, and banned the troublemaking migrant workers from membership. Cream of the clauses was one stipulating that only literate workers could join. This barred 90% of the campesinos...