Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Refugees. Only one of the Republican leaders stayed to face the music. He was 70-year-old Julian Bestiero, who handed Madrid over to Franco and got a 30-year prison term for his courage. In France are ex-Presidents Niceto Alcalá Zamora and Manuel Azaña, ex-President Luis Companys of Catalonia, onetime Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, Generals Juan Sarabia and José Asensio, many others. Premier Juan Negrin and Foreign Minister Julian Alvárez del Vayo are in Mexico, as are some 6,000 of the more Leftist Republican supporters. Madrid's Savior, General...
...Despite the Allies' tighter grip on the Skaggerak and Kattegat, into Kiel last week steamed the German prison ship Altmark, safe home after being grounded and robbed of her prisoners by the British destroyer Cossack in Jösingfjord (TIME...
Marriage Revealed. William P. Buckner Jr., 33, sporty bondster; and Adelaide Moffett, 26, nightclub-crooning daughter of Oilman James Andrew Moffett. secretly Feb. 8; in Danville, Va. Last week Bridegroom Buckner went to prison to serve two years for mail fraud (TIME, July...
...China, looked at Japan's undeclared war, cabled six stories from Hong Kong. Again the Japanese were not amused. No sooner was Jimmy back in Tokyo than a squad of policemen descended on him (TIME, Feb. 5), ransacked his hotel suite, threw him into a cell in Sugamo prison for "spreading fabrications and false rumors" in violation of the Army criminal code...
There Jimmy stayed for seven weeks, awaiting trial. Hauled before District Judge Sanehira Hotta, Reporter Young last week heard his sentence: six months in jail and full costs of his trial. Because Jimmy Young is a U. S. citizen, Japanese justice suspended his term in prison, put him, on probation for three years. Then back he went to Sugamo prison, not to be released until this week, then perhaps deported...