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...After heated debate, the Assembly firmly shelved the question until its next session. Next day, it was the distant figure of runaway Communist Gerhart Eisler which agitated the Assembly. Poland's Juliusz Katz-Suchy asked the Assembly to conduct an inquiry into Eisler's rights of political asylum. The Assembly voted against allowing discussion of the Eisler case. During the balloting the Ukrainian delegate mistakenly lined up against Katz-Suchy. "You see," snapped Poland's Katz-Suchy at Assembly President Herbert Evatt, "that just shows you no one knows what we are voting...
...Batory's master, Captain Jan Cwiklinski, refused to surrender his passenger. His argument: Eisler a) had paid for his passage, b) had broken no British laws, c) was under the protection of the Polish flag, and d) had been assured the right of asylum when the ship reached Communist-dominated Poland. Faced with these arguments, the boarding party retreated. Three hours later it was back., This time the Scotland Yard man not only had a warrant for Eisler's arrest but also a tough cablegram from the U.S. State Department. Its gist: the U.S. might seize the vessel...
...intended "to kidnap a [royal] maid of honor and take her to an uninhabited island." It was no wonder that London buzzed with fantastic rumors and no wonder that Dickens found himself furiously denying that he had suddenly "become a Roman Catholic and was raving mad in an asylum...
Brand is a $220-a-month* attendant at the Milwaukee County Asylum. There, he is responsible for a 70-bed dormitory and a ward of 124 male patients who are "disturbed," i.e., violent, potentially violent, or criminally insane...
...shipping clerk who lost his job in the '30s, has been a hospital attendant since 1935. In 1947, after observing for a week at an Illinois state hospital, where the law forbids restraint, he got permission to try the method. In his own ward at the Milwaukee County Asylum, 32 patients had been tied up. He took the restraints off every one. Says he: "The freed patients were like horses that were tied up for years in the barn. Let them go and they run and kick. So I let them. They were happier than they had been...