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Monarch of All Moods. Napoleon took proud delight in acts of clemency. When a German traitor's wife burst into tears on being shown an incriminating letter written by her husband, Napoleon smugly informed Josephine that he had said to the weeping woman: "Madam, you can throw that letter into the fire: I shall never be strong enough to punish your husband." But clemency never interfered with policy. "You must make the skipper speak," he orders, of a sea captain suspected of spying for the English. "You can . . . squeeze his thumbs under the hammer of a musket...
...cowards!" A certain amount of hyperbole is doubtless permissible in a manifesto issued on such an emotional occasion; Castillo Armas probably knows quite well that some Communists are cowards and some are nothing of the sort. And while he may regard Fellow Traveler Arbenz as a tyrant or a traitor, he could scarcely consider him a coward. On the contrary, military attaches, diplomats and journalists who have met the Guatemalan President are in striking agreement that the mainspring of his character is dogged, stubborn, self-willed courage. If there is any kind of bravery he lacks, it is perhaps...
Then he demanded: "Are we any safer . . . because General [George] Marshall was branded as a traitor? No, we aren't. But we are a little less honorable . . . Are we any safer because nonconformity has been practically identified with treason? I think not . . . Are we any more to be feared by the Communists because of all the hundreds of headlines the Senator from Wisconsin has piled up? I don't believe...
Last week the Congress also: ¶ Decided, among House Republicans, to call pending wiretapping legislation the "Anti-Traitor bill." ¶ Voted, in the House Appropriations Committee, to spend a record $1,060,968,000 for atomic and thermonuclear weapons development in fiscal 1955, but cut some $152 million from other budget requests made by the Atomic Energy Commission...
...year-old, gun-toting Schlurf named Jan Brzoza was up before a Polish court, charged, along with three accomplices, with robbery. The court decided to make an example of Brzoza and sentenced him to death on the simple grounds that if a Bikinist is not already a traitor he will probably be one before long...