Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commemorating Gandhi's month-old arrest, hundreds of his followers, choking under a tear-gas barrage, lay prone or squatted in Bombay streets. But although Gandhi's movement was spreading, the Raj persisted in pretending that it had suppressed the demonstrations and averted greater uproar. The danger, increasing week by week, was that the full fury of India's disorder would burst when dry war weather in late September and October* adds its welcome to Japanese invaders...
...reputation. Your false report was a vicious piece of writing, based, obviously, on the unconfirmed word of somebody who did not know what he was talking about. You say in your article "there was no excuse for the manner in which the news of Leonski's arrest was broken to his aged Polish-born mother." I say there is no excuse for the manner in which you smear one in your own craft...
...Communists, Untouchables, Moslems. Their program was ready for the push of a button. During the week the Viceroy's Council met almost daily instead of once a week. It was a period of great decision for the eleven Indians on the 15-man council. If they approved the arrest of Gandhi, it meant that their decision would haunt Indian politics for decades. It would cut them off from any Congress party support. On the fateful Friday they trudged three times up the winding spiral stairs of the Viceregal lodge to the Council Room. They left late at night with...
...Schutzstaffel went right ahead sending some 27,000 refugees, Jewish and otherwise, to concentration camps. But the New Order was further disheveled when many Paris gendarmes refused to cooperate in the seizures. Time out was required for the arrest and jailing of these chicken-hearted officers...
...their drills, which are usually held in the evenings, the Auxiliary Police are trained in marching rife formations, the technique of making an arrest, and elementary first aid. Military drill instills the sense of cohesion in the unit and gives the police the same advantage in riots that a regiment of regulars has against untrained men in warfare...