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...party. Ulbricht arrested all six on charges of conspiring with U.S. Relief Worker Noel Havilan Field, whom Ulbricht sneeringly described as "the American spy and merciful Samaritan." Field, a onetime Communist sympathizer who disappeared mysteriously in Central Europe last year (TIME, Oct. 24), has become a favorite Communist purge scapegoat. It was for conspiring with Field that Hungary's top deviationists were purged a year...
...breaks and poor judgment made the impulsive Hood the scapegoat of a lost cause. After his outnumbered troops had been decimated by Sherman's army, he turned northward in desperation to strike at Sherman's communications. Below Nashville he bottled up a Union army -then slept soundly while the Federals slipped away in the night on an unguarded turnpike, only 100 yards from the Confederate lines. His next move was even more disastrous: he followed the Federals a few miles north, and "without adequate artillery and over the protests of his officers," bled his army in a foolhardy...
...SCAPEGOAT (209 pp.) - Jocelyn Brooke-Harper...
...bewilderment of such seasoned readers will be shared by many in the U.S., for The Scapegoat has as many pockets of darkness as passages of light...
This Gothic tale is artificially tensed by Author Brooke with misleading clues (the point of the confrontation at the Druids' stones is never made clear) and contrived devices of suspense. The Scapegoat still has the ugly reality of a fatal disease...