Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene from a U.S. visit, tried to retrieve the initial blunder. Police decoys, he admitted, are unloved characters anywhere. But the U.S. intervened in his case not for "valuable services" rendered the West, but because Kemritz had only aided an occupation power (Russia) in its legal right to arrest a suspected war criminal. To let a German court sentence him for doing so, said McCloy, would only encourage old Nazis to come out of their holes, start endless legal proceedings. It was a legalistic argument, and an unpopular one, but McCloy was determined to stick...
...failed (TIME, July 2), they fell back on franker methods. Last week news reached Hong Kong that in Peking the Communists had jailed at least 14 priests, padlocked twelve of the city's 17 Catholic churches and put all foreign priests still in Peking (about 40) under house arrest...
...Morrison statement continued: "In Britain we set great store by ... freedom from arbitrary arrest . . . British citizens are not removed from their homes, they are not deported, they are not sent to labor camps. If there is a knock at the door in the early morning, it will probably be only the milkman...
Bulgaria. Yugoslav intelligence sources reported the arrest of 200 high officials of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Rather than yield to Communist requisition of their produce, many Bulgarian peasants are burning their crops and taking to the forests and mountains, where they form small armed bands. An estimated 40,000 Bulgarian peasants have been deported from the Yugoslav-Bulgarian border region to concentration camps, another 35,000 sent to prison, and 1,800 of more peasant families interned in their homes...
...Eyes Have It. In Chicago Professional Panhandler Thomas Murphy was arrested in the midst of his blind-beggar routine when a policeman asked: "Didn't I arrest you a few months ago?" and was assured by Murphy: "I never saw you before in my life...