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Said Cardinal Hlond, who in 1935 voluntarily renounced the State-levied taxes which had supported the Polish Church and who for years worked to heal German-Polish enmity: "In my archdiocese alone I have verified the fact that 18 priests were shot . . . without counting those who died in prison. . . . The churches are all closed with very few exceptions. . . . In the district of Znin for two months no Masses have been allowed to be celebrated. All the priests have been arrested and it is forbidden to administer any sacrament. . . . The Gestapo is the owner of the Church. . . . But the people have...
Like the boy in British Cartoonist Henry Bateman's cartoon, who went to prison for breathing hard on a glass case in the British Museum and returned, a decrepit old man, to breathe his defiant, dying breath on the same forbidden glass, John Seed did not give up his high resolve. Last fortnight he returned to college, strapped in a plaster cast from waist to shoulders. He spurned the university's offer to end the contest by giving him a clapper...
...Swiss arrested a Lieut. Colonel Hans Trueb, who was said to have confessed that he was spying for "a certain foreign power." Last July one Alfred Zander, a little man with big ambitions, who headed The League of Faithful Confederates, was sentenced to a year and a half in prison, and last month a second would-be Führer named Robert Tobler, whose party is called the National Front, was arrested on suspicion of espionage. Last week the Swiss Government warned its citizens to disregard any purported "official" orders not to resist invaders: Switzerland would resist any invader...
...dumped into the ring to agonize a barefoot opponent in South Africa . . . early days of the century when U. S. sportswriters hailed him as the Real McCoy to distinguish him from spurious Kid McCoys . . . night life in Paris ... a grey day in 1925 when he entered San Quentin Prison charged with killing one of his sweethearts . . . the day he walked out seven years later with a parole in his pocket...
Yesterday's action legally was merely a further step in the old case. If Hurvitz and Segel are found guilty of contempt of court, they may receive a heavy penalty, either a fine or a prison sentence...