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...German section of the OGPU and, on Moscow's orders, proceeded to rid the Communist ranks of Trotskyites. For those special cases which did not respond to the lash, the pliers, the hot wires and the other accepted tools of his craft, Ulbricht fashioned a tiny cell of granite blocks in which a prisoner could neither stand nor sit. Those who lived to tell called it Ulbricht's "stone coffin...
...parents named him Ernst Paul Walter Ulbricht when he was born in 1893, but in later years he got to be known by many aliases-Comrade Cell, Comrade Motor, Sorenson, Urvich, Leo (and, behind his back, Billy Goat). At 15, he joined a workers' youth organization, at 17, the German Woodworkers' Union. At 19, he joined the Social Democratic Party, where he got acquainted with Das Kapital. When a renegade bloc of Socialists merged with Rosa Luxemburg's and Karl Liebknecht's Spartakusbund in 1920 to form the German Communist Party, Walter Ulbricht was there...
Rhee was not finished with Chough, however. Within a few hours, ROK M.P.s, under the command of Rhee's provost marshal, bundled Chough from the hospital to a jail cell in Seoul. Official reason: "He indiscriminately misled the public by words and deeds, resulting in a very, very difficult situation . . . Because of his disturbance of public sentiments . . . public antagonism became so serious he needed protection." Actually, in a land where Syngman Rhee controls not only the police but the press, only a tiny fraction of South Koreans knew of Chough's audacious stand...
...arrest in Germany on the charge that his act was a fraud and his acquittal after demonstrating his abilities in a courtroom; his escapes from a strait jacket while dangling from a Times Square building, from a packing case lowered into the icy Detroit River, from an "escape-proof" cell in the Tower of London; his attempts, after the death of his mother, to communicate with her through mediums and his subsequent campaign to expose spiritualists as fakes...
Capacity to Pay. In Davenport, Iowa, when Displaced Person Ignauy Stachal told police that he was broke and needed a place to sleep, he got a cell in the municipal jail, was politely ushered out next morning when the cops found $1,023 in his wallet...