Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dangerous than the Nazi fifth column in the U.S. during World War II. For every card-carrying Commie, Hoover guessed, there are ten fellow travelers who would help the party when called. About 14,000 of the most active Reds have been bird-banded and marked down for quick arrest in the event of a national emergency...
...Vogeler wept when told that his wife was waiting for him in Vienna: his jailers had told him that she was under arrest, too. He knew nothing of what had happened in the outside world since November 1949. "You mean there's real fighting?" he asked when told of Korea. At his house in Vienna's U.S. sector, Vogeler leaped from the car, embraced his pretty blonde wife and two sons, 11 and 9. Exclaimed one of the boys: "Gosh-at last!" Vogeler wept...
Methods, Physical & Mental. After more than a year of negotiations, the U.S. State Department had reached a settlement with Hungary: after Vogeler's release, 1) the Hungarian consulates in New York and Cleveland, closed by the U.S. after his arrest, would be reopened; 2) as stipulated in the Hungarian peace treaty, Budapest would get all Hungarian goods seized by the Nazis during World War II and now held in West Germany. (This property does not include the crown of St. Stephen...
...Malapaga." Winner of the Academy Award as the best foreign film of 1950, this French-Italian collaboration focuses on a graying Frenchman who is a refugee from age and from a murder which he has committed. His escape is not complete, but in the few days which precede his arrest he learns to love life once more. His renaissance is that of a martyr, for it takes place in the most squalid of scenes, rubble-ridden Genoa. Here is a drama of courage, and a type of courage which is indeed a social phenomenon in post-war Europe...
...tragedy of "Malapaga" is the necessity of its theme. For moments, and only moments, can be enjoyed because the future is so unbearably uncertain, as illustrated by the arrest which terminates revival and romance. There is a good deal of art in this film; and there is a good deal of history...