Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anyone adjusting his mind to the new tyranny which is succeeding abroad. ... I resent the patronizing air of persons who find in my plain belief in freedom a sign of immaturity. If it is boyish to believe that a human being should live free, then I'll gladly arrest my development and let the rest of the world grow up. ... I believe in freedom with the same burning delight, the same faith, the same intense abandon which attended its birth on this continent more than a century and a half ago. I am writing my declaration rapidly, much...
Presently he submitted a memorandum warning that a pro-Nazi Fifth Column threatened Yugoslavian unity and full mobilization in case of attack. War Minister Milan Neditch, now Hitler's Serbian Quisling, asked Mihailovich to withdraw his memorandum. He refused, and was sentenced to 30 days of military arrest for "disloyalty." He was freed at the instigation of Inspector General Bogoljub Illich, who is now in London with the Yugoslavian Government-in-Exile...
...AntiChristian espionage" is widespread, the Cardinal charged, and priests are prevented from reading "certain episcopal documents" by the simple expedient of arrest. Churchgoers are being morally blackmailed by instructions that "less faithful attendance . . . means keeping your job." Party functionaries are quoted as asking Catholics to quit the church or quit the future of Greater Germany. Though Nazi Party meetings go on to small hours, young people are forbidden to attend evening church festivals, because "they last too long and prevent their getting sufficient sleep...
Captor. In Key West, Deputy Sheriff Willie Kemp went out on his bicycle to make an arrest, returned on the handle bars, the prisoner pedaling...
...thus dare the Nazi guns, perhaps something was rotten in all Hitler's coastal defenses. Certainly the defenses of Boulogne were not raid-proof. Shortly after the raid, Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, lately named as commander of all German forces in western Europe, ordered the arrest of several Nazis, jailed 150 Frenchmen suspected of having given assistance to the British...