Word: arrested
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Almost as President Truman's decision was announced, the U.S. learned it had been playing the game of survival with the enemy looking over its shoulder at all its top-secret cards. The arrest in London of Communist-Scientist Klaus Fuchs, a spy who had worked at top level atomic jobs in the U.S. (see INTERNATIONAL), led a jittery Washington to wonder whether even the deepest of military or state secrets were safe from the U.S.S.R.'s agents. It also wrote a chilling epilogue to such recent demonstrations of the meaning of treason as the trial...
Fuchs's arrest hit Washington between the eyes. A member of the Atomic Energy Commission said: "We realized that this was one of the blackest days in the history ... of the security of this country. We are treating this as the biggest problem we ever had." In consternation, President Truman's Cabinet met to discuss the case. One of those who attended the session said: "You can't overemphasize the seriousness of this development...
...word or action of Fuchs ever drew suspicion to him; his arrest came about another...
...Purpose Prejudicial." One day last week Fuchs's superiors, at the request of the police, asked him to appear at their offices in London's Shell-Mex House. Two Scotland Yard men placed him under arrest. Fuchs turned to one of his scientific superiors and asked: "Do you realize the effect of this at Harwell...
...slave owners knew an enemy when they saw one. Georgia's legislature offered $5,000 for Garrison's arrest and conviction "under the laws of the State." Mississippi slave owners made up a purse for his capture. Georgetown, D.C. passed a law forbidding Negroes to read his paper. Garrison was hated in Boston too: he kept harping on the guilt of northern ship owners for transporting the Negroes in the first place. Finally, the free Negroes of Boston organized to protect him; each night a bodyguard, armed with cudgels, trailed him home. Even so, in 1835 he came...