Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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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...
First contingents of British children arrived in Canada last week, shipped over to preserve them from Adolf Hitler's total war. Contingents of German war prisoners also landed in Canada to be sent in boxcars to prison camps far from civilization. In mid-ocean one man "scuttled himself" by leaping from a porthole. Others on arrival struck a final blow for Germany by destroying the British gas masks which had been issued them...
Calmly the British waited until the Germans had announced the sinking before telling that the Arandora Star was a prison ship-thereby preventing Nazi propagandists from claiming that the British had scuttled her deliberately. Afterwards the Germans, who ruthlessly attacked hospital ships at Dunkirk, had to content them selves with grumbling that the British should have marked the ship so that it would not be attacked. The British announced that the U-boat commander who struck the blow was Germany's Scapa Flow hero, Lieut. Captain Günther Prien...
...Congress made the transportation of prizefight films in interstate commerce a criminal offense ($1,000 fine, a year in prison, or both). Widespread bootlegging weakened this ban and unhampered radio broadcasts made it almost meaningless, but it stayed on the books until last week. Then Franklin Roosevelt scratched his name to a repealing act passed by Congress, after 28 years making the movement of fight films over State lines legal...
...Chicago, 62-year-old Moses Louis Annenberg, publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer was sentenced to three years in Federal prison. His offense, of which he had pleaded guilty: evasion of $1,217,296 in income taxes in 1936. Still to be paid by Moe Annenberg in the biggest income-tax prosecution in U. S. history: $9,500,000 in civil penalties...