Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaulle stories had come many definite reports that Franklin Roosevelt had won over Winston Churchill to the sacking of General de Gaulle. Only Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden prevented Britain's agreement. Twice, it was said on high authority, Franklin Roosevelt had cabled Winston Churchill, actually suggesting the arrest of General de Gaulle. Churchill refused, but only at Eden's insistence, it was said...
...India's first general election (1937) Jinnah's party, roundly trounced by Gandhi's Hindu-dominated Congress party, won less than one-eighth of all the seats officially reserved for Moslem candidates in the Moslem provinces. But the Congress party, with 8,000 leaders still under arrest since last August's riotous break with the British, was in a weakened condition last week. From the Aga Khan's palace at Poona, Gandhi made his first public attempt to get back into the political stream since a 21-day fast had failed to gain...
...neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity...
...defiance of the Government "gives aid and comfort to our enemies." The law has a word for giving aid & comfort to the enemy in time of war. The word is treason. If the Government meant what it said, its next step would be to place John L. Lewis under arrest...
After 25 hours of dismayed silence, Army authorities issued a tight-lipped statement. That rumor, at any rate, was no fantasy. Private William McRae, a chauffeur, had indeed been shot and seriously wounded; Colonel William T. Colman, 39, commander at Selfridge, was under arrest and observation at a Battle Creek hospital...