Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal security of slender, ascetic Adolfo Lanus, La Prensa's editorial writer, was in doubt. He was reported under arrest. No Argentine regime had yet dared to ban La Prensa, but this was a challenge direct...
...main force concentrates on Norfolk. Armed with pistols and night sticks, they patrol on foot by twos, ride along in the city's prowl cars, or cover the county roads in trucks. They arrest all drunk and disorderly servicemen and all out-of-uniform sailors...
Blignaut and Botha ushered Chanke into another room, slipped a noose around his neck, threw the rope end over a beam. Then they ordered the sweating native to stand on a chair and jump. Chanke collapsed, unconscious. The noise brought other clerks, arrest for the sportsmen. Sentence: $100 fines for Blignaut and Botha. Newpapers suggested that the Government should remove such Afrikaners from authority over the Bantu...
...Arrest of persons believed guilty of war crimes, and trial in countries where the crimes were committed; neutrals to be requested not to give sanctuary...
...promulgate a return to democratic government. At week's end, an aurora borealis of rumors flamed from Vichy, Berlin, Madrid, Berne, Stockholm, French Africa: Pétain had abdicated, he remained in office; he lay stricken with heart disease, he was in good health; he was under house-arrest in Vichy, he had conferred freely with Laval...