Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such facts only reach the Soviet public with a moral attached. Pravda, in reporting the Georgian grafter's arrest last week, urged all Bolsheviks to heed a recent warning by Dictator Stalin that "no Communist must think because of his position that he is above the law." To emphasize that this time Stalin means business, Pravda carried the news that "no mercy will be shown to embezzlers of the people's property, no matter who they...
...Bordens was justified. They were under no suspicion as possible naval spies. Bright and early next morning, Turkish officers courteously conducted Professor and Mrs. Borden to the scenes of their molestation. When they identified the sentry and the six other soldiers these were promptly clapped under military arrest with promise of a rigorous court martial. To Professor Borden was returned his money, and Mrs. Borden was indemnified for her torn clothes...
...Papen and Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath. after which he would go the whole Nazi hog alone, or else these "Balance Wheels" would be retained to steady his careening Government. In Berlin for some days von Papen had been considered politically dead. The strain of living under house arrest, never knowing when his guards might turn executioners, had made the Vice Chancellor's eyes red from sleepless worry-or nervous weeping. Even a son of onetime All Highest Kaiser Wilhelm, gape-jawed, goggle-eyed Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi"), had been called on the carpet as a plot suspect...
...Defense Minister, Military Chaplain Schleigel announced: "I will officiate at the funeral whether it is forbidden or not!" Elderly retired brother officers of General von Schleicher mustered up courage to send telegrams indicating disbelief in the Government's charge that their comrade and his wife had been "shot resisting arrest." Some of these telegrams, bold but not too bold, used a word combination possible only in German, expressing sorrow at the "comradeassassination...
...main go-between in the conspiracy was former Reich Chancellor General von Schleicher, who made connection between Captain Roehm and a foreign power* and those eternally dissatisfied figures of yesterday. ... It was self-understood that General von Schleicher had to be arrested. While being arrested, he attempted to make a lightning assault upon those men who were to arrest him. Thereby he lost his life...