Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would let the Assembly elect the next President by June 23 (as provided in the constitution) if the Assembly agreed to permit the popular election of future Presidents. On the surface, this offer looked good, but the suspicious Assembly-with eleven of its members still under Rhee's arrest-wanted to take a hard look at the fine print...
First, he declared a state of martial law. Next, he had his police jail eleven National Assembly members whom he accused of being involved in a Communist plot, seize a twelfth on a murder charge, and arrest eleven citizens on a charge of plotting to assassinate him. The actions brought stern rebukes from a U.N. commission in Korea and the U.S. Embassy, and a flying visit from Eighth Army Commander Van Fleet. Said Rhee blandly: "There is no connection between politics and the arrest of the Assemblymen . . . The arrests will continue." Vice President Kim Sung Soo resigned in protest...
Down went Kurt Schumacher's name in the Nazis' black book. The day of reckoning came in March 1933. By that time, the Socialists were meeting clandestinely.; those in danger of arrest were told to find sanctuary in Prague. Schumacher would not go. Four months later, in a hideaway in Berlin, he heard the expected knock on the door. The Gestapo took him to the Heuberg concentration camp near Stuttgart. Schumacher coolly calculated thaO he would be in jail eleven years (he reckoned that by that time the Third Reich would have fought and lost...
...policeman moved in to break up the trouble, only to stop back suddenly and hold the group at bay with his revolver. He was joined shortly by four paddy wagone, out of which emerged 40 cops. Use of night sticks aided in the arrest of 39 rioters; among those booked was a Somerville druggist, who happened to get off a bus at the wrong time...
...cross examination. Rugo's attorney cast some discredit on Storey's testimony by proving with a photograph that the started time of arrest was wrong. The picture showed Rugo's arrest and a clock in the background...