Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they heard young King Mihai announce on the radio that Rumania had switched to the Allied side in the war, they persuaded the prison commander to turn them loose-with their side arms. But it was not enough to be free: they wanted to be back in Allied territory...
...fields of Ploesti-"the hottest target on the face of the earth"-two weeks before. He was one of more than 3,000 U.S. airmen downed in Rumania in 13 months of raids. Two-thirds had been killed. But 1,101, plus 25 Britons, were still alive in prison camps around Bucharest. They were well treated but they chafed...
...that he had been a Nazi sympathizer.* He called his five broadcasts on the German radio in 1941 "a terrible mistake," explained that he intended them "in the spirit of the British soldier who spoke on the radio to get messages back home." Wodehouse said he was released from prison camp "mainly because I had reached the age of 60," then arranged for the talks describing life in the camps. "I suppose it sounds idiotic," he declared, "but it never occurred to me that it would be held against me. ... I guess all authors must be half-witted...
...visualize India today, it is one vast prison containing 400 million souls. You are its sole custodian. Government prisons are prisons within this prison. I agree with you that whilst you hold the views expressed in your letter under reply, the proper place for one like me is a Government prison. And unless there is a change of heart, view and policy on the part of Government, I am quite content to remain your prisoner...
...housepainter in Paris's Menilmontant slum, Chevalier first took the stage at II as a midget comic, played baggy-pants burlesque routines while he grew taller. In his teens, he replaced the dancing partner of Paris's famed Mistinguette, in World War I landed in a German prison camp, escaped as a Red Cross worker. After the war he grinned and pouted his way from French casinos to frothy U.S. cinema successes (Love Parade, The Smiling Lieutenant), thriftily saved his salary, returned to France, where he was suspected of collaborating with the Nazis...