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...functions transferred to the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. Its chief, famed Old Bolshevik Mikhail Tomsky, had maintained that "the trade unions should have an existence entirely separate and independent of the structure of the State." This doctrine clearly was not in harmony with the utter supremacy of Dictator Stalin, and the secret police began investigating Old Tomsky. whose friends in Russia and abroad were numberless. Presently police announced that he had "committed suicide" (TIME...
...days later the Sheik was accused of "possessing arms"-something every Arab sheik possesses-advised that if convicted under Britain's new emergency decree in Palestine the penalty would be Death. Arraigned before a court martial of three British officers, the Sheik Farhan refused to utter a word to the Court, kept repeating to himself passages from the Koran. His lawyer entered a plea of "not guilty," the court sentenced him to Death, and on the sixth morning after he crawled out of the wheat bin Sheik Farhan al Sadi was hanged by the neck until dead at Acre...
Dreams, nightmares, interminable abysses of utter blankness--these toyed with his defenceless mind. Unconscious, he moved about during the hours of the night. He ran down black alleys, he leapt over cliffs and fell through the air like a feather; he walked into a store with a big glass window and bought an automobile; a girl with a flopping white hat chased him up a flight of stairs (he remembered thinking that he had seen her face before. In Boston?): he saw beer cans dropping from the ceiling. Dawn approached, and his blankets and sheets lay messed...
...deal with the Spanish problem in a spirit of real .international cooperation. ... In such conditions no one can complain if the patience of those who have striven to keep their responsibilities toward Europe constantly before them is well nigh exhausted. I for one, should certainly not be prepared to utter a criticism of any nation which . . . felt compelled to resume its freedom of action...
...stirring were the words of Dr. Wellington Koo, although he never once spoke of "war": "Intoxicated by his last conquest, the invader [Japan] is bent upon ruthless slaughter and wanton destruction. The lives of 450,000,000 people are at stake. . . . The Japanese forces invading Chinese territory show utter disregard for all the rules of international law. The law of morality gives place to violence and anarchy. . . . Civilization and the security of the world is in the balance...