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During the night the Great Lakes pleasure ship Hamonic moved through Lake St. Clair and up the St. Clair River from Detroit and Windsor. An hour after daybreak she eased into the dock at Point Edward, Ont. Her 247 passengers, most of them Americans, got up drowsily for a picnic ashore. Later, 80-odd more passengers would arrive from Toronto. Then the Canada Steamship Lines' 36-year-old ship would shove off for Duluth, Minn, as she had done many times for many summers...
TIME Correspondent Craig Thompson, looking and listening throughout the trial, wrote this account: The prisoners' dock was a picket-fence pen knocked together out of boards salvaged from packing cases. It contained four rows of seats, four to a row. Around the dock there was a plethora of blue-and-red-capped, uniformed guards of the NKVD. Between the dock and the audience stood two guards, immobile with rifles grounded, leather cartridge cases on their belts, unbuttoned bayonets glinting like polished silver under the batteries of Klieg lights...
With his shaved head showing only grey fuzz, his scarred face pale, Joyce stood stiffly erect in the dock, murmured: "I have heard the charge and take cognizance of it." He was also cognizant that the penalty for treason is death. Joyce had been poorly paid by the Nazis for his treasonable broadcasts, was now penniless. Under the Poor Prisoners' Defence Act, he was certified as entitled to free defense counsel. Then he was whisked to Brixton Prison in a Black Maria. On arrival, he had said: "So this is Brixton." "Yes," snapped his guard, "not Belsen...
...reported one such drama: Into the courtroom of Rome's old uni versity, where students once faced examiners, strode Peter Koch (an assistant to Rome's chief of police Pietro Caruso), handcuffed but smiling. He took his place behind the wooden rail of the prisoner's dock. His tall figure with its small, cruel head was momentarily silhouetted against the light as the carabinieri removed his handcuffs. Koch let his gaze wander with an air of unconcerned, conscious superiority over the crowd. The characteristic twist on the left side of his mouth seemed to mock the spectators...
...only a handful of brass hats, newsmen and stevedores. The Army banned the public from the pier. In the bustle of disembarkation the soldiers missed more meals: one large group went foodless for 15 hours. The Army refused to let Canadian Legion and Red Cross canteen trucks on the dock...