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...Tuka checked in for little Slovakia, of which he is Premier and Foreign Minister. Dr. Tuka was impressive in his sombre uniform of the Hlinka Guards, and when he had signed his name he told the assembled dignitaries how he dreamed of this hour "during long years in a prison cell...
There is the battle of Long Island, like an old panorama print, with Smallwood's line of brown-clad Marylanders saving the routed American forces. There are weird night scenes in the Long Island swamps where the hunted tories hide, the horrors of life in the British prison hulks; the desperate tory defense of Ninety Six, a Virginia outpost. One of the book's best passages describes the long columns of tories stretching from Winchester (far down the Shenandoah Valley) to the Cumberland Gap. Persecuted by the rebels, let down by the British, the homeless loyalists ooze slowly...
...County, Ill., Truck Driver Richard Rizzo (5 ft. 2½, 110 lb.) posed with his draft board, a picture of an admired good fellow. But for some, the draft was tragic business. Eight divinity students in Manhattan ignored the last pleas of their families, teachers and lawyers, accepted Federal prison sentences of one year and a day for refusing to register. An Oakland, Calif. house painter, Raymond L. Belisle, was nabbed for the same offense, photographed in handcuffs. To his blank registration card he had attached a notice: "The undersigned will not serve in any Army or Navy as long...
Though he was defended by Rio's best known trial lawyer, Prestes was convicted, last week began serving a sentence of 30 more years in prison...
...Yorkshireman received a letter from his son in a German prison camp, who reported that among his fellow prisoners was bald, twinkly Novelist Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, last heard from in July when the Germans captured him and his Le Touquet villa...