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...methods of Communist propaganda were employed at this rude camp: wall newspapers, political plays, tireless singing of Communist songs. When an informer was brought in, "after being burned with brands and beaten almost to death with rattans, [he was] finished off with a bayonet in the grave that had been prepared for [him]." Out of these surroundings came Chin Peng, slight, 31, pimply-faced, fanatical leader of the Malayan Communists, for whose capture the British will...
...double-crossed when he got there. Nine others would also be hanged on some lonely dawn. Three of the accused were let off with life imprisonment on the ground that they had been forced to take orders from higher-ups. Said Prague's official Communist organ, Rude Pravo: "The accused are creatures who long ago lost the right to be called men. When looking at them, one is reminded of the pictures from Korea of the spiders, bugs and rats carrying with them the plague, typhoid and cholera...
...Israel, tens of thousands of people, with their radios tuned to Prague, listened in horror. The Israeli government was sure that Jews were made the new scapegoats of Czechoslovakia's economic failings and wretched living conditions; it is noted too that the Communist Rude Pravo ominously referred to Israel as "a base of aggression against the peace camp and the enslaved Arab nations." Israel prepared to protest, both in Prague through its ambassador there, and in the U.N. Even Israel's Al Hamishmar, newspaper of the slavishly pro-Cominform Mapam Party, suddenly disillusioned, called the accusations against Oren...
Then came a hitch. As Ljubodrag Djuric, secretary general of the federal government, rambled through a speech dealing with the morals of party members, some comrades began making rude comments from the floor. Comrade Djuric tried to keep cool, but he did not succeed. "Seeing that you do not want me to go on," he shouted, "then I hereby accuse Comrade Petar Stambolic of stealing my wife." The congress was stunned: Comrade Stambolic, sitting stone-faced on the platform behind Djuric, is no less a personage than the Premier of Serbia and one of Tito's closest friends. Comrade...
Last year Adman Jones got a rude shock. Nine of his key aides, who owned less than ½ of 1% of the company, decided the agency would do better without him. President Robert Hayes told him, said Jones, that if he did not sell out within 48 hours, the nine rebels would quit and take their accounts with them...