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...Patients are beaten up and murdered by attendants. . . . [They] are starved. . . . [They live in] antiquated, unsanitary buildings [amid] filth, vermin and overcrowding. . . . Care of the mentally ill is a national disgrace...
...prisoners' bread rations with a brush. Six arsenic bottles (two of them empty) were found under the floor of the local bakery. First theory was that the poison was being used to exterminate cockroaches. But further investigation showed that the unknown poisoner was not after ordinary vermin. His aim, announced U.S. counterintelligence, was to kill the camp's inmates-some...
...remembers the Thanksgiving morning in 1902 when a moving van drew up to 26 Jones Street, which had been an anarchist hideout on "the Street of 40 Thieves." She and her Russian-born husband had picked this vermin-filled, draughty place for a settlement house. Greenwich Villagers peering suspiciously from windows figured "we were just another family moving in," Mrs. Sim says. They were glad to be accepted that way; "we did not want to be regarded as strangers bent on uplift...
...some of the tale could be told. It covered the familiar stories of lack of hospitals, lack of food and clothing, vermin-infested camps, corporal punishment of prisoners, death by decapitation of a U.S. airman on New Guinea, name not disclosed. (From Korea came a story of U.S. prisoners on Jap ships, crazed with thirst, biting their arms and drinking their own blood, perishing when the ships were bombed by U.S. planes...
Scum, Mad Dogs, Vermin. A few days later Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and most of the top men in the Red Army's general staff were arrested and shot for "treason." Cried the Soviet radio: "Fascist traitors," "mad dogs," "criminal scum of humanity." "stinking vermin." Says Barmine: "I knew better...