Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chilean officials, putting fire and fire together, promptly shouted, "Sabotage!" Newspapers, with next to no justification, blamed it on the minuscule (300) and well-guarded Japanese colony. The police put 20 Germans under preventive arrest. Chipping in their two cents' worth, the Argentines-who are far more worried about Communists than Germans and Japs-contributed a complicated suspicion: before leaving port, the assistant butcher of the Mapocho had been told by his boss that the ship was doomed to destruction; since the boss was known to be a Communist, it was no doubt a dark Red plot...
Despite the shattering completeness of the charges, the Mission's "clergy" indignantly pleaded not guilty. Nor was the arrest popular in Hell's Kitchen. Last week the children along West 40th Street poked glumly among the refuse in a vacant lot across from the Mission and talked about the wonders of Father Norman's Christmas party. Most of the adults, too, felt dimly aggrieved. Said Thomas Phillips, a merchant seaman: "If this guy Norman stole, he stole from the rich to give to the poor-sort of a Robin Hood, you might say. He loaned...
...response to all the criticism, Moscow did not explode and go its lone way, as it certainly would have done in the past. Instead, the Russians quietly released Mme. Tomasz Arciszewska, wife of the London Poles', anti-Russian Premier, whose arrest in Poland had touched off a storm of British protest. If Yalta had done nothing else, it had put the Russians on their best public behavior...
...Parliament Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden reported: "The Soviet Government has informed the British Ambassador in Moscow . . . that to meet the wishes of the British Government they are taking steps at once to set Mme. Arcizewska free." The elderly wife of Polish Premier Tomasz Arcizewski had been arrested in Poland by the NKVD (Russian secret police). Asked if there were any reasons for her arrest, the Foreign Secretary answered: "I have been given some, but I thought in the light of the happy conclusion to my inquiries it would be better to leave it there...
...assassin, a lean, pale, 26-year-old Egyptian lawyer named Mahmud Issawi, submitted impassively to arrest. To the police he arrogantly proclaimed the pro-Naziism which had earned him long internment. He had been released last Autumn-by order of Maher Pasha...