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Ambassador Bowers wrote a column for Hearstpapers until just before his appointment. He was advertised as "The Fighter Who Never Pulled His Punches." Last week on Spain's Island of Mallorca the live middle-class U. S. citizens (one female) who had sat in jail for seven weeks on flimsy charges of assaulting a civil guard (TIME, July 24) were still waiting for Fighter Bowers to do something and at least get them out on bail...
...letter from the male prisoners: "We are now four in a cell. . . . The stench is unbelievable." They concluded that the female prisoner, Mrs. Caroline Lockwood, "shows alarming signals of an approaching breakdown." In his tourist bureau Judge Vidal said authoritatively. "They cannot expect first-class hotel life while in jail...
...less mystical. He talked of supplanting "mass civil disobedience" with a program of "individual civil disobedience." Even his disciples were puzzled. They urged the Mahatma to make peace and petition Lord Willingdon to set free the thousands of Gandhite prisoners, some of whom have languished in Anglo-Indian jails for as much as two years. Seemingly the Mahatma felt his leadership challenged. Squatting down in the centre of the committee, he proceeded to mesmerize all present with a two-hour mystic plea that the All-India National Congress Party through its committee should once more abdicate and place all power...
...alone. The drunk caterwauled. The guardsman knocked the drunk down, broke his eyeglasses. Mr. Lockwood rushed up. The guardsman spanked Mrs. Lockwood with the flat of his sabre. Husband Lockwood punched the guardsman's eye. More green and yellow men appeared, took the five to Palma's jail in the ruins of a medieval monastery. Charge: the military offense of assaulting a Civil Guard. Minimum penalty if convicted by a military court: five years. Two of the five prisoners, including Rutherford Fullerton, were held only as witnesses...
...Armistice. The boys come marching home, and the men go marching out of mines and factories suddenly idle. A Paterson police chief, fat and funny, directs his men as they throw women textile workers into a patrol wagon. "Reds" await deportation at Ellis Island. Eugene Debs comes out of jail and Woodrow Wilson sails for the Peace Conference. Henry Cabot Lodge plots destruction for the League of Nations. Three years later, a dying ex-President grins gauntly from the front door of his Washington home. Warren Gamaliel Harding, onetime bandsman of Marion, Ohio, campaigning with a French horn, shakes hands...