Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tillon, 55, was given a distasteful job: working for Stalin's phony "peace crusade." Marty and Tillon called it ridiculous and absurd. What they wanted was riots, strikes, rebellion. Last May, when General Ridgway arrived in Paris, Marty organized Red riots which failed miserably and ended with the arrest of Jacques Duclos, No. 2 man of French Communism and in charge of the party while Thorez is away. To make matters worse, Marty used Duclos' month in jail to carry out a quick, private purge of the French Communist paper L'Humanité; among other staffers...
...case of Edward A. French '54, conscientious objector arrested for draft-dodging, is "a fairly common occurrence," an official of the Fellowship of Reconciliation said last night. Robert A. Lyon, Executive Secretary of the Massachusetts Fellowship group, said that many pacifists, some in this area, face arrest, especially "if their boards are prejudiced against them...
Commenting on French's arrest, Lyon said it "is dramatic evidence of the inadequacy of the Selective Service Law as it applies to conscientious objectors. In fairness to the lawmakers, it should be said that there is no real solution for the religious pacifist short of the abolition of war and conscription...
According to the officers who made the arrest, Stroebel said he needed the money to continue his studies here. He said he took the gun along just to give him courage...
...Christmas, while she sells her beautiful hair to buy him a platinum watch fob; The Last Leaf, in which an unsuccessful artist (Gregory Ratoff) paints his masterpiece to keep a dying girl (Anne Baxter) alive; The Clarion Call, about a cop with a conscience (Dale Robertson) who has to arrest an old chum (Richard Widmark...