Word: incommunicado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Consul in Peiping relayed the report to Washington. From Ward's skimpy recapitulation and the splutterings of the Communist Chinese radio, the State Department pieced together the humiliating story. After holding the U.S. consulate members incommunicado for nearly a month (TIME, Nov. 21), the Communists had staged a hasty "trial," and convicted Ward and his aides of "brutally assaulting" a Chinese servant. The Reds' kangaroo court sentenced the five to jail for three to six months, imposed a stiff fine, then suspended the sentences and ordered them deported...
...trying to stay neutral in the cold war, dreaded the Russians' reaction to a spy scandal. St. Laurent, who had refused to listen to Gouzenko when he first came to his office with the spy data, saw it differently. He ordered 14 suspects locked up and held incommunicado while a secretly appointed Royal Commission dug up the facts. St. Laurent's political opponents rapped him hard for carrying out the spy probe under a secret order in council. Said St. Laurent later: "I was satisfied it was the right thing to do and I was prepared to take the consequences...
...made in the El Paso Herald-Post, Sheriff Apodaca first slapped the football player into solitary. Then he cleared him of all charges and turned him loose. The roof promptly fell in on the sheriff. A Negro construction worker named Wesley Byrd complained that he had also been held incommunicado in jail for twelve days, that state policemen had tried to make him admit the crime by squeezing his testicles with a bicycle lock. Nuzum's landlady, who backed the athlete's alibi, had been warned by the sheriff that "he didn't want any more dead...
...Chinese Communists dropped their Bamboo Curtain over the U.S. consulate general in the Manchurian metropolis. Communist guards virtually imprisoned the n Americans, led by kindly, goateed Consul General Angus I. Ward, within their consular compound, denied them radio facilities, branded them as "espionage organs." Last week, after seven incommunicado months, Angus Ward finally got a letter through to the U.S. consul general in Peiping. His staff was safe and morale "good." But Angus Ward had no word as to when & how he could follow Washington's order of last May-to leave Communist Mukden and its bamboo bars...
This time, the more efficient Communist police gave him barely time to kiss his weeping, 85-year-old mother goodbye. Quietly, he said: "Very well," and quietly entered the waiting police car, rosary in hand. Sticking closely to the Sofia decisions, the government announced that Mindszenty was being held incommunicado on suspicion of "treason, attempting to overthrow the democratic regime, espionage and foreign currency abuses." The Communists gave out a long list of incriminating documents said to have been found in "a metal box buried in a cellar in the cardinal's palace...