"Those Things"

In three capitals last week men fell in their own blood as the result of political violence.

France. Someone calling himself "The Three Judges of Hell" mailed ten simple dynamite bombs to a radio broadcasting station, a publishing house, an automobile magnate's office, a department store, a beauty products laboratory, a baby food company, a pencil company, a film office, the Society of Authors and a boarding house. Resembling magazine rolls, two were opened and detonated, wounding three postal clerks and an automobile employe. Wrapped in the catalog of a St. Etienne munitions firm, each bomb contained the message: "We will strike the French people without distinction as to age. sex or rank, until they realize their cowardice, before the great pirates deprive them of the right to be severe toward ordinary criminals and stealers of handkerchiefs."

Poland, Two men stepped from the shadow of a stairway in Warsaw's Club of Politicians and fired three mortal shots into Minister of the Interior Bronislaw Pieracki. As they fled, someone noticed that one wore a grey tunic like that of the National Radical (Nazi) party whose newspaper Col. Pieracki had suppressed dav before.

Cuba. Provisional President Carlos Mendieta finished his speech at a naval officers' luncheon at Tiscornia Camp across the bay from Havana and sat down. BAM! A huge hole opened in the wall under a stairway, blew a great wind across the room. A seaman and a Navy paymaster stood directly between Mendieta and the stairway. The blast killed both, scratched Mendieta's left hand and wounded a scattering of Cuban officialdom. Said President Mendieta: "It was a terrible surprise but just one of those things." Another of "those things" Spoke two days later from submachine guns in a red Pontiac sedan that suddenly rolled alongside a monster Havana parade of ABC men, women and children. The guns killed twelve, four of them women, wounded more than 60. The parade went on but stiff-jawed ABC men stepped out of line and went in pursuit. They shot and burned four men in the red car, shot three in another. ABC Man Joaquin Martinez Saenz, Secretary of the Treasury, said: "When the ABC consented to join in the Mendieta Government we suggested strong measures to end terrorism. They have not been adopted. Now I believe they will be."

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