Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police records for more than half of his 40 years, he has been charged with juvenile delinquency, unlawful entry, conspiracy, carrying a gun, grand larceny and homicide. In 1937 the Federal Government sent him to prison for two years for violating the Sherman Anti-Trust...
...valuable to national defense. Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security Sir John Anderson promised to release about 10,000 internees. Last week, however, they were still in jail and the clamor continued. London Daily Herald Columnist Hannen Swaffer exposed the treatment of 600 alien "suspects" at Pentonville Prison. He charged that the prisoners-"no longer names but numbers"-were locked in cells all day long with only an hour's exercise, saw no newspapers, were not even allowed watches. Inveterate house of Commons questioner Laborite Emanuel Shinwell thereupon visited Pentonville himself, angrily clucked: "I think...
...problem of restoring France's econ omy was chiefly a question of finding men to do the work. One of the points that Marshal Pétain discussed with the Armis tice Commission was the return of 1,500,000 French prisoners of war, still held in German prison camps. In central and southern France were 10,000,000 refugees waiting to be conveyed back into territory occupied by Nazis. There were 1,200,000 Belgians waiting to be sent back to Belgium. To repair railroads and highways, reconstruct bridges destroyed by German bombs, the Premier last week mobilized...
When Poland fell last September, according to accounts from Polish refugees, soldiers of the Red Army seized Prince Janusz and a half-dozen of his family (including married daughters) and shipped them to prison in Moscow. On hearing of this, Queen Elena of Italy, a family connection, appealed to Chancellor Hitler. He ordered the German Ambassador in Moscow, Count Friedrich Werner von Schulenberg, to try to free the distinguished Poles...
...time Nazi pressure, applied by Count von Schulenberg, began to be felt by the Communist authorities, the imprisoned Radziwills had become thin and emaciated. Suddenly their Moscow prison rations were changed from short to long. The same official of the Soviet Political Police who had starved and questioned them then stood over the Radziwills to make sure they ate every morsel on their now heaping plates. They were kept from the usual prison exercise period, suffered gastritis from the intensive stuffing process. But the Radziwills were fattened up to something like normal in three weeks...