Word: eisler
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...small, bald, bespectacled man in the brown suit, who was freed on a technicality in London last week, looked like a Hearst cartoon of a New Deal scholar. He was no such thing: he was Gerhart Eisler...
...Eisler had been convicted in Washington in 1947 for swearing to false statements on a passport application. He had appealed from this verdict and was awaiting a Supreme Court decision when he jumped his $23,500 bail and boarded the Batory. The U.S., in asking Britain to extradite him, said that Eisler had been convicted of perjury, a crime specifically covered in the Anglo-U.S. Treaty of Extradition. Eisler's British lawyer contended that the treaty did not cover Eisler's conviction because in British law a false oath is not perjury unless it is taken...
...fate of Italy's former colonies, a question popped into U.N.'s lap when the Big Four were unable to agree on it. After heated debate, the Assembly firmly shelved the question until its next session. Next day, it was the distant figure of runaway Communist Gerhart Eisler which agitated the Assembly. Poland's Juliusz Katz-Suchy asked the Assembly to conduct an inquiry into Eisler's rights of political asylum. The Assembly voted against allowing discussion of the Eisler case. During the balloting the Ukrainian delegate mistakenly lined up against Katz-Suchy. "You see," snapped...
...captain gave in. Gerhart was arrested, and led quietly out on deck. But then he saw an amazing spectacle: 100 newsmen were circling the ship in rented craft, cameras and notebooks poised. Gerhart Eisler threw himself on the deck and yelled as though he were having lighted cigarettes pushed into his eyes. The plainclothesmen picked him up by arms & legs and lugged him down the gangway, while cameras clicked...
...Batory's master, Captain Jan Cwiklinski, refused to surrender his passenger. His argument: Eisler a) had paid for his passage, b) had broken no British laws, c) was under the protection of the 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...