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...tortured
people in order to wring confessions out of them. Even little children
had been tortured, said Khrushchev, as tears streamed down his face. To
get confessions, Stalin had promised some victims a dacha (country
cottage), but "the only dacha they saw was underground."
...been long overdue. Joyce was an anti-intellectual. His crime was to unseat reason from its throne. The role of the intellect is to reduce the chaos of the subconscious, and of the stream of consciousness, to order. To surrender that function and retreat to chaos is treason against man himself and the God who endowed him with intellect and will...
...urbanely, and appropriately on a wide variety of topics in a wide variety of tones. To audiences ranging from the readers of Fortune to the Democratic National Committee to the senior class of Smith College, and on subjects as varied as the farm problem, the Republicans' "twenty years of treason" charge, United States relations with Canada, and "This I Believe," Mr. Stevenson is uniformly eloquent. This wide diversity of subject and approach contributes substantially to the book's readability...
...books. More than five centuries later, there were still some 200 crimes (including poaching) punishable by death in England. Children as young as seven were hanged. The first sweeping move toward clemency was not made until 1835, when these 200 mortal crimes were cut to four -high treason, murder, piracy, and setting fire to the royal dockyards and arsenals. In practice, since 1861 the death penalty in peacetime has been invoked only for murder. But not until 1868 did Britain outlaw public executions...
Rejected Charge. The real cause of his dismissal, MacArthur wrote, may have been "my recommendation made in January [1951] that a treason trial be instituted to break up a spy ring responsible for the purloining of my top-secret reports to Washington." This recommendation, he suggested pointedly, probably seemed to Truman a politically inspired "red herring" designed to embarrass the Administration. But in fact, MacArthur theorized, Red China would never have risked troops in Korea without advance information that its Manchurian bases would be immune from U.S. attack. Likely "links in the chain to our enemy in Korea": British Spies...