Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LONDON--Great Britain will not permit the use of Norweglan or other neutral waters by the German fleet, Prime Minister Noville Chamberlain declared in Parliament today, repeating the British charge of Norwegian negligence in handling the German prison ship Altmark...
Great Britain is so proud of the delivery of British seamen from the German prison ship Altmark that the drama of Gjossingfjord may be made into a propaganda film...
...minutes the chief warden came through the gate and posted a notice on the prison door. One by one the waiting crowd filed by to read: "The judgment of death has been executed...
...angry demonstrators carried black flags with skull and cross bones through Dublin's streets. They tried to storm the British Representative's office. At the Post Office, bloody scene of the 1916 Easter Rebellion, they stood silent for two minutes. Sports were canceled, cinemas closed. At Mountjoy Prison, where once Mr. de Valera himself was jailed and where in 1922 the British shot Rory O'Connor, railroad engineer and onetime I. R. A. staff member, a crowd burned the Union Jack...
...crowd which still remembered vividly the martyrdom of men like Terence MacSwiney, playwright, editor, onetime Mayor of Cork, who starved himself to death in a London prison; of Sir Roger Casement, convicted of high treason and hanged in Pentonville Prison; of James Connolly, whose Easter Rebellion wounds the British cured only so that he could later be shot. Whether or not Richards and Barnes would measure up to the martyrs on this list, the fact was that the 700-year-old Irish hatred for Britain was again sorely inflamed. Best expression of Irish feeling came in a resolution...