Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...EOCHA (National Organization of Christian Solidarity) to help those interned by the occupying powers. So popular was this organization that on several occasions quisling Greeks tried to exploit it. Damaskinos fiercely resisted, kept politicians' hands off. Toward occupation's end, the frustrated Germans put Damaskinos under house arrest...
...Yague meant a restoration of the monarchy. Although he fought on Franco's side in the Civil War, Yague had damned Axis intrusion in that war and urged a lenient peace for the Loyalists. In the midst of World War II he had spent some months under house arrest, apparently for monarchist activity...
...Rudolfo Saldana Ruiz, a Mexican who had bought up the majority stock, the Tilletts' departure with the plant equipment looked like outright stealing; he got a warrant for their arrest. But the sheriff, who must catch the Tilletts in the state where the moving operation took place, has so far failed to serve the warrant. The boys travel incognito...
Heinrich Himmler was found to have compiled a Who's Who for automatic arrest in the event of a German invasion of England. The Gestapo blacklist, discovered in his Berlin headquarters, ranged from Winston Churchill to Noel Coward and David...
...Fourth of the writing Mowrers: Edgar's wife Lilian (Journalist's Wife, Arrest and Exile, Rip Tide of Aggression...