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Hans Kohn, distinguished historian and authority on nationalism, was born in Prague and educated at the university there. During the first World War he served as an officer in the Austrian army and was taken prisoner by the Russians. There he received his first teaching experience in a minature university organized within the prison...
Symbolic of the Cabinet's viewpoint was one of its first acts: suspension (for two days) of the reactionary Istanbul newspaper Tasviri Efkar, for deriding America's war aims. Symbolic of unchanged domestic policies were the trainloads of minority Greeks, Armenians and Jews still leaving for prison-camp rock-piles because they could not meet a new capital...
...great respect, Giraud differed from Pétain: Giraud hated Germans long before they raped France, and he is forever exhorting his troops to kill Germans. And, like all good Frenchmen of whatever political stripe, he loves France. While in a Nazi prison, he laid down his hope for la patrie in a letter to his seven children...
...mornings, onetime Boxer Sydney Robey Leibbrandt punched his shadow about his cell. In the afternoons, he ranted Nazi cant. At night, he ignored his comfortable prison bed for a wooden bench. Three days of each month, he fasted...
Grounds for the Supreme Court's action were technical: under amendments to the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, the Government had tried ex post facto to bring the German-born American to account for political activities. Viereck, author and journalist, was sentenced to prison for two to six years, fined $1,500 and costs. Now his case is remanded to the lower court; he is under indictment on charges of sedition and conspiracy to undermine the morale of the armed forces...