Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...denying Corliss Lamont a passport for European travel, the State Department has begun to draw an iron curtain which is as great a danger as its Russian counterpart to understanding and spreading democracy. This is the curtain of an unofficial "house arrest" which may envelop individuals whose particular brand of "Americanism" conflicts with the preachings of Senators McCarthy and McCarran--State Department critics who spend more time than the Supreme Court in interpreting and defending the Constitution...
Lamont is not a security risk. Nor is he under arrest for any civil or criminal charges. He is an American citizen, who, like millions of others, pays his taxes and votes for his favorite political candidate. But he is different because he has asserted his constitutional right to criticize his government--without hiding behind any party standard. For this, he is judged "subversive...
...Mohandas Gandhi thus began a campaign of civil disobedience to the anti-Indian, anti-Negro laws of South Africa. Last month, Gandhi warned Prime Minister Daniel Malan that the government's apartheid policy "would drive one to Communism, whether one wishes it or not." His aim: to provoke arrest and go to prison, thus "seek to change the heart of the government by my self-imposed sufferings...
...Congress ignored their founder's son, and, led by the Communists, spent their time denouncing "American imperialism in Korea." Worst of all, Malan's government also ignored him, and proved that passive resistance might be the best weapon against passive resistance. No summons for his arrest came. Gandhi last week went back to the library and railroad station, this time taking his wife Sushila along. Again there was no arrest. Gandhi and his wife dejectedly drove away in their blue Chevrolet...
...thunderstruck local Communists let him finish. It was a month before the police came to arrest him. Since then, nothing has been heard of Father Tung...