Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Polish flag, and d) had been assured the right of asylum when the ship reached Communist-dominated Poland. Faced with these arguments, the boarding party retreated. Three hours later it was back., This time the Scotland Yard man not only had a warrant for Eisler's arrest but also a tough cablegram from the U.S. State Department. Its gist: the U.S. might seize the vessel, and kick the Gdynia America Line out of New York if the captain didn't listen to reason...
Defense Attorney Palmer played it as though the Government's attorneys were just straight men in his act. In cross-examining the agent who described Miss Coplon's arrest, he snatched up her handbag, minced up & down before the jury. "Now comes this great eclipse," he bawled, "this marvelous piece of FBI ideology!" When searching her, he said, the FBI had "stripped her from pillar to post" and from "topsail to feet...
Apparently discarding a defense he had used immediately after Judy Coplon's arrest-that she had just been gathering material for a book-he told the jury that she had kept trysts with Gubichev because-"She got an affection for him," he cried. "When you are in love with a person you don't care whether they are red or green. Love knows no bounds...
...University police officer, aided by several Cambridge police, made the arrest as Hollingshead was being beaten...