Word: slaving
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...from West Berlin by taping them under the seats of railway carriages. After reading, we gave them away for nothing because we wanted other men to know the situation in the free world ... It is necessary that people in the U.S. should understand the difficulty people in the eastern slave states have in getting news of the outside world...
...when the slave power was crushed, conservatism, in mismated union with it, was stricken-and for decades thereafter in the U.S. the central power swelled and the conservative principle languished...
...member of the British Foreign Office once blamed the relative lack of appeal of this country's public service on the fact that Americans can hold no titles of nobility. "An English civil servant will slave for forty years," he said, "just so he may someday be tapped on the head by his Sovereign." This ingrained avoidance of the trappings of royalty may also explain why Americans whose memories do not reach back to 1936 are somewhat bewildered at the British Commonwealth's preoccupation with the Coronation. The island that has lived so long on austerity, boiled, seems ready...
Millionaire Friedrich Flick, onetime financier of the SS, is a German coal baron whom the allies jailed (1945-50) for using slave labor in his farflung mines. Two-thirds of Flick's holdings were grabbed by the Communist government of Eastern Germany; the rest were ordered broken up by U.S. and British trustbusters. Flick agreed to sell his majority (60%) interest in the Harpener Bergbau, and looked around for a German customer. He found none: German businessmen, strapped for cash, need all their ready capital to build new factories...
...dock of a British military court in Hamburg, charged with 17 war crimes in Poland and Russia (more than any other general indicted by the Western Allies): condoning the murder of Jews and other minorities, the execution without trial of Russian commissars, the deportation of Russians to slave labor. Many Britons considered the long-delayed trial unfair, and contributed ?1,620 to his defense (Winston Churchill sent ?25), but Manstein was convicted and sentenced to 18 years. Later his sentence was cut by one-third...