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...loads his play with no over-obvious parallels to contemporary events--though the audience is not discouraged from drawing parallels itself. But his play demonstrates impressively that when a man reasons from certain premises, it is inevitable for him to conclude that all opposition to the government is treason...
Kekkonnen is in a precarious position. His people like the Americans and tend to call the Russians "smelly barbarians," but, as he puts it, "Relations with the West depend on how she handles relations with the East." The West, he says, tends to regard loans from Rusisa as treason, but without them Finland will not survive. When Finnish ties with the West grow stronger, as they did last fall, Russia exerts economic pressure...
...business and industry is run as an old family affair, grossly inefficient, protected by high tariffs. Yet Galo and his successors down to Conservative President Ponce Enriquez have brought hope for the future and, above all, freedom. Almost daily one paper or another roasts Ponce for "fraud, deceit and treason." The President ignores them all. "Neither calumny nor insult disturbs me," he says. "I have given the press free rein...
...prisoners were shot, raising the four-week execution total to 264. In Victoria de las Tunas eight more were condemned. Havana rebels will organize six more courts to speed the trial of 1,500 candidates for "revolutionary justice." The rebels indicted Batista and 24 top officers in absentia for "treason, rebellion, sedition, desertion, malfeasance, robbery and fraud." Foreign embassies in Havana were crowded with 74 exiles who still have not got safe-conduct permits to leave the country...
...ambassadorship to West Germany. When Aref returned without permission at an awkward time, the Premier ordered his arrest. Kassem had decided personally, said the prosecutor, not to divulge "details" of Aref's trial, "in the interests of Arab solidarity." Nor was any sentence made public, though for treason there is usually only one punishment, and that quite final...