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With wisps of Axis battle smoke all but drifting across India's borders from Russia and Thailand, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and his recently released companions in civil disobedience began to waken from their prison apathy and make concessions to the logic of events. Effective as Mahatma Gandhi's passive-resistance technique may have been against the relatively civilized British, its potential worth against enemy tanks and bombers appeared questionable...
...been and will be released on the same grounds, are no longer regarded as having power for serious mischief." To Congressmen in India this was a fine piece of wishful thinking. They had in mind Jawaharlal's (Nehru's popular name in India) five previous, more rigorous prison terms. They knew that his opinions had not changed, that his mischief value had increased with each term he served. Cheered and garlanded with flowers when he was released from prison last week, Nehru, almost at the jail's gate, repeated that he considers India's struggle...
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, World War I draft dodger, as the U.S. entered World War II lost his appeal for a parole from Army prison at Fort Leavenworth, where he has served a little more than a year of a seven-and-a-half-year term...
...chief value that remained to be appraised in the light of the changed world was the human value of man himself. What that value was in 1941 no book of 1941 told. Novelist Koestler came closest to doing it. His Darkness at Noon is laid in a Communist prison. In one scene an imprisoned Communist taps through his cell wall to ask why his neighbor, a Tsarist officer, has first refused, then sent him cigarets. The nameless, faceless, voiceless Tsarist, the type of the repudiated man, taps back his reason to the totalitarian who once thought he was the hope...
...mental marks of torture and persecution in the countries from which they had escaped, and for a more enlightened [French] administration these marks should have been regarded as the stamp of their bona fides and loyalty." But they were indesirables, a polite word for scum, and in their prison camps they were worse-fed, worse-housed, worse-treated than France's enemies, the interned German nationals...