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Though 450 I.R.A.s are in concentration camps and 153 serving prison sentences, the Saxons and the pro-Saxon Gaels had the devil's own job cutting the "pipeline" connecting Eire with Northern Ireland. Fortnight ago in Dublin they jailed (for seven years) piccolo-playing Anthony Deery, whose piccolo, the peelers found, was strangely mute, being stuffed with code-scribbled cigaret papers...
...counter this measure, the Senate's friends of labor, La Follette of Wisconsin and Thomas of Utah, slipped into the hopper a bill to impose on management that violated labor laws criminal penalties up to $10,000 in fines, six months in prison. Any anti-labor law would thus come smack up against the La Follette-Thomas bill, would have to fight with it for Senatorial consideration...
Thus the FBI caught up with the wiry, white-haired leader of the Silver Shirts, who once boasted that he was "the first to come out openly and unabashedly for the policies of Adolf Hitler." Sentenced to prison three months ago for violating North Carolina's blue-sky laws governing sales of securities (TIME, Feb. 2), Führer Pelley was out under $10,700 bail, waiting an appeal...
...Hong Kong, the sisters are restricted in their movements but permitted to do part of their pastoral work; the priests were first put in prison, are now interned...
Author Bessy Myers and her cool friend, Mary Darby, were captured in June 1940. They spent the next "incredible hundred days" under the Nazi thumb-in a hospital and in two prisons, in Occupied France. They got loose and back to London. For three weeks, in the notorious Cherche-Midi prison in Paris, they experienced solitary confinement, bedbugs, thoughts about suicide. Their jailmates were in for such crimes as tearing down a Nazi poster; firing a cook (who promptly denounced her mistress to the Nazis); saying sales Bodies (two years); helping Polish suspects escape from Paris (20 years). One night...