Word: jails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Grieger tried to leave Poland he was arrested, spent three months in the Jauer prison in Lower Silesia, another three in a Breslau jail. The Jauer prison, although jammed with 350 people, looked from the outside like an ordinary house. The prison wardens specialized in subtle forms of torture. All night long guards walked in & out of the cells, switching lights on & off to keep prisoners awake. When prisoners went to bed they had to pile their clothes in the middle of the room. Then guards would deliberately disarrange the pile and announce that everyone must be dressed...
Grieger was finally released from jail, but got into trouble again. In a Warsaw cafe one day, he stopped to talk to a British visitor who was sitting at a table with three pretty Polish girls and a Communist functionary. When the Briton proposed a toast to "these nice girls here" and the King of England, the Communist shouted: "We won't drink to the - King. It will be to Stalin." Says ex-R.A.F.-man Grieger: "I don't know what happened, but I slugged him." Before he could be arrested, Grieger ran. At the border...
...Thing to Fear. Spain's Civil War was hard on the Corvillon family. Because they stayed at their jobs in Loyalist Madrid they were in the Franco government's Dad books when the war ended. Benito's father was fired, and Benito himself was thrown into jail without trial or specific charges. For nine months he was awakened each morning by the firing of execution squads, wondering if he would be next...
When he got out of jail, Benito managed to find a job as waiter at the Parliament bar which his father had once run. Protestant activities were strictly limited under Franco, and the Evangelical community was all but dispersed. Benito asked his old friend Pastor Fliedner to help him get ready for the ministry...
...foreign correspondent, is reluctant to mix in political controversy. But as his conscience is needled by a reporter (Gail Russell) for a Mexican-American weekly, he saves the youth's life during a manhunt, begins to crusade for him, and narrowly averts a lynching at the town jail...