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Last week the performance so portentously touted and so expectantly awaited opened in the House of Commons. In the last few days before summer adjournment, M.P.s clambered into their seats remembering Churchill's recent warning that Britain's economy reposed on "a treacherous trap door" (TIME, June...
...corridor into the death chamber of Montreal's Bordeaux Jail one midnight last week. Guards lifted the cripple out of his chair and carried him up the steps of the steel scaffold. The hangman fitted the noose, waited for a nod from the sheriff, then sprang the trap. Twelve minutes later, a small notice was tacked on the prison door. "Judgment by death," it read, "was this day executed on Généreux Ruest...
...Great Gulfs. Davis recognizes the danger that newsmen, in supplying adequate background to their news report, might easily fall into the trap of spreading their own prejudices all over the paper and "one Chicago Tribune is enough." Nevertheless, newsmen must do more interpreting. "The good newspaper, the good news broadcaster, must walk a tightrope between two great gulfs-on one side the false objectivity that takes everything at face value and lets the public be imposed on by a charlatan with the most brazen front, on the other the 'interpretive' reporting which fails to draw the line between...
...agenda; 2) locate the cease-fire line; 3) provide safeguards for the truce; 4) arrange exchange of prisoners; 5) and finally, agree on recommendations (not binding) to the belligerent governments. In putting the cease-fire line at the top of the substantive items, the wily Reds had laid a trap which the U.N. woke up to, later...
...Trap. "I have never seen a people look better or more carefree," the Prime Minister told the British Press Association luncheon in London. "What I wonder is whether they have realized the treacherous trap door on which it all stands. It is an alert that I am sounding; yet it is more than an alert-it is an alarm. We have never been beaten yet, and now we fight not for vainglory or pomp but for our survival...