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...nearly 1:30 a.m. before Drummondville's police thought things had gone far enough and began to disperse the mob. As quickly as they could, the Mounties and constables headed out of town. They took nine suspected draft dodgers or deserters with them. Conscription-hating Drummondvillians had freed the rest...
...year to run, felt that he had already been overgenerous, as her 1941 trip was "a three-months' leave" which had now stretched to more than three years. Cinemactress Leigh, who admitted that she would be subject to Britain's labor draft if she were banned, was freed by the court, which ruled the contract "extraordinarily stringent...
...Ipswich, England, Mrs. Kathleen Walters had anxiously waited for news of her R.A.F. husband, shot down over Germany shortly after their honeymoon. Last week she learned that the Red Army had freed him from a prison camp in eastern Germany. Mrs. Walters' feelings were uncomplicated by politics or protocol. So she sat down and wrote a letter in which she managed to express the simple gratitude that many similarly uncomplicated Britons feel toward the Russians. She addressed her letter simply to Joseph Stalin Esquire, Kremlin, Moscow: "Dear Marshal Stalin: My prayers have been answered and now what more...
...Robert Crabb, who with his wife and a boy and girl born during their internment were among 3,700 freed at Santo Tomas. He wrote: "Hundreds of us wept unashamed when the Stars & Stripes was run up. . . ." ¶ NBC Correspondent Bert Silen, who began his first broadcast with an inevitable wisecrack: "As I was saying when I was so rudely interrupted over three years and a month...
...bitter experience. It is a moving, convincing-and timely-account of life in a Jap internment camp, and of what happens to the characters of once easygoing civilians penned up in it. It is set in Manila's Santo Tomas camp, where almost 4,000 prisoners were freed by U.S. troops last fortnight. Author Mydans and her husband Carl, ace LIFE photographer, were imprisoned there for eight and a half months...