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...fixed Death as the penalty for attempting to secure or disclosing important military secrets. Imprisonment for ten years was provided for transmitting to foreign governments "news, even if false, which should be kept secret in the interests of the Reich." Finally foreign correspondents in Germany were gagged with the threat of "not less than three months imprisonment" for transmitting abroad "news which should be kept from foreign governments, even if false...
...other depends upon Congress itself. That body must realize that perhaps its very existence depends upon whether it succeeds in the speedy passage of intelligent legislation. If it works with this thought uppermost in its mind, it will survive the technical emergency which these times have produced. Otherwise the threat of dictatorship hovers ever closer...
...Green Threat...
...Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf of the New Jersey State Police disclosed that the Bryant-Harvey case-simple, stupid, but none the less horrid-was one of three extortion attempts made since small Jon's birth last August. One letter was a warning or threat to "watch out." Another asked $50,000 in $20 bills in a suitcase. The illiterate letters leading up to Bryant & Harvey's arrests began coming in December. Excerpt...
Later the mutineers proposed "conditional surrender." Their terms were relayed to land stations in Netherlands India, thence to Her Majesty's Government 9,000 miles distant at The Hague. Evidently scared, the mutineers asked no more than amnesty, with the implied threat that if this were not granted they might do mischief to the eight Dutch junior officers in their power. Bold as a lion at The Hague, fiery Dutch Defense Minister Deckers held out for unconditional surrender...