Word: detained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crux of Chief Justice Gwyer's decision was that numbers of prisoners in India may have been arrested on the slimmest of evidence. He ruled: "There is no power to detain a person because the Government thinks that he may do something hereafter or because it thinks that he is a man likely to do it; there must be suspicions based on reasonable grounds that he is actually about...
...knowledge of His Majesty's Government," the communiqué said flatly, "that he has been in contact with Japanese authorities since the outbreak of war with Japan. This fact has been confirmed by his own admission. His Majesty's Government has accordingly been compelled to detain him and it will not be possible to permit him to return to Burma...
...test case last week, Lord Atkin dissented from his colleagues' opinion that, under the Emergency Powers (Defense) legislation, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison had the right to detain persons at his own discretion, not subject to court interference...
...decided to do things the hard way, perhaps the unnecessarily hard way, by making a frontal assault on the Union position, expected Longstreet to advance at dawn. At 10 o'clock the front was still quiet, and Lee cried out: "What can detain Longstreet? He ought to be in position now." Noon passed, and Longstreet did not feel ready to undertake his seemingly tough assignment. Not until 3:30 did the advance begin; it was 6 when the Confederates actually got a brief foothold on Little Round Top, only to be driven back. Had Longstreet won that bastion...
...peace terms. The Duke was in such a hopeless military position that he must have eyed the terms wistfully, even though accepting them would have meant giving up his much-loved gaudy uniforms; but he had strict orders not to give in-having lost Ethiopia, he might as well detain as many British as possible as long as possible...