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Died. Lord Strabolgi, 67, Britain's "Labor Peer," an articulate traitor to his class, who delighted in rocking the House of Lords; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in London. Although his father and American mother had fought and won a hard genealogical battle to establish their right to the 635-year-old family title, Strabolgi seemed to wish they had lost. To the dismay of his fellow peers, he once snorted: "The House of Lords . . . is a picturesque survival of the feudal system . . . out of tune with the modern world . . . Better let it go the way of the divine right...
...After this day, the revolution will take firm and severe action against anyone standing in its way," cried Deputy Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser, the regime's strong man. "No traitor will be able to raise his head." The gentle revolution, which in more than a year executed only one man, had come to an end. The regime set up a special three-officer revolutionary tribunal, made it supreme over all other courts, empowered it to hand down death sentences on traitors, rounded up scores of suspects and began trying them this week. Among the arrested: two ex-Premiers...
...Shah's court and the government could not agree on whether to hold the court-martial in public and run the chance that Mossadegh might steal the stage, nor had they settled on the punishment to be exacted. Theoretically, he could be condemned to death as a traitor. But in the streets, Mossadegh still commanded great popularity, and the Communist-led Tudeh (in spite of vigorous government efforts to defang it by throwing its leaders into jail) was busy last week cooking up sentiment for a pro-Mossadegh uprising. Those who feared that Mossadegh's wizardry might live...
Repeatedly, he refused to talk, finally was ordered to put his refusal in writing. "I swear that I have no military information," Dean wrote, "and even if I had any, I would not divulge it in order not to become a traitor to the U.S. So help...
...Soviet concessions to East Germany and on the list of Presidium members attending the last Supreme Soviet. Current ratings: Malenkov, Molotov, Khrushchev, Marshals Voroshilov and Bulganin, Lazar Kaganovich (Stalin's brother-in-law). Still unheard from: Lavrenty Beria, once No. 2, now in jail awaiting trial as a traitor...