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...April 1947 Russia agreed to repatriate all German P.W.s by the end of 1948. But she has kept many-presumably for slave labor, Communist indoctrination, or both. Russia claims that she holds only 13,546 German prisoners. Yet 90,000 Germans still in Soviet hands have written to their families, and returning prisoners have given the names of some 300,000 others still in the U.S.S.R. The Western powers believe that there are also 350,000 Japanese prisoners still in Russian hands...
...meets an unhappy woman whose husband bought her "freedom" from serfdom - but also tore her away from her lover, who remains a slave. At the house of a neighbor he watches the owner mercilessly bleed his peasants while affecting the most cultivated French manners. And another time a landowner tells him: "As I see it, the master is the master, and the peasant is the peasant... and that's all there...
...swore that he had never seen him before. The police took both men to a station house, jotted down their stories and sent them home. There were no facts to be examined, no witnesses to be questioned. No U.S. court had jurisdiction over a crime committed by a German slave in a Nazi concentration camp. Though the men in the long beards and skullcaps argued in the streets for hours, there seemed no sure way of deciding whether it was a case of mistaken identity or of a murderer beyond the reach...
Born in northern Mississippi, the eighth of "just eleven children" of ex-slave parents, Alexander Shaw started out to be a public-school teacher, but finally followed his father and an elder brother into the ministry. At one of his first assignments, in Winchester, Va., Dr. Shaw found the second-floor ceiling of his parsonage too low for him. When he solved the problem by persuading his congregation to rent him another house while leasing the parsonage quarters "to a much shorter man," newspapers in Washington and New York delightedly picked up the story and caused him "a good deal...
...from which he can never escape. After Fort abandons "Relief," his former cronies publicly denounce him as Rachel's seducer. The dirt becomes even thicker when Jeremiah mysteriously receives a circular signed by Fort in which Rachel is charged with having given herself to a Negro slave. For Jeremiah, pressed by the inhuman necessities of politics and the all-too-human taunts of his wife, there is no longer a choice...