World: DEATH, DIPLOMACY AND DIMINISHING PEACE

SOME time in the night, the eleven men—eight Jews, two Moslems and a Christian—were secretly hanged in their prison in Baghdad. Then their bodies, clad in the red jail uniform of the doomed, were hauled by truck to downtown Liberation Square, where a set of wooden gallows had been hastily constructed to display them. Next morning Baghdadis awoke to martial music and the shrill cries of loudspeakers and radio, urging them to take the day off to view the executed "Israeli spies." For those who could not make the trip, the government ordered the...

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