Word: gestapo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked immigration to forget about it and let him become a permanent resident of Canada. Just then, former members of the French Resistance, now living in Montreal, spotted De Bernonville. They lost no time telling the authorities that as a Vichy collaborator he had betrayed French patriots to the Gestapo during the Nazi occupation...
...radio speech preceding the 1945 general elections, Churchill predicted that a Labor victory would result in a Socialist totalitarian state employing "some form of Gestapo...
...jets. This is to prepare him for a visit to Germany to quiz a German scientist (anti-Nazi) on German progress in developing the rocket bomb. Thereafter the episodes are what might be expected: the high moment of almost every Lanny Budd novel is an escape from the Gestapo, or the rescue of someone from a Fascist torture chamber...
Frank Jay Gould, youngest son of the late Railroader Jay and oldest living dandy of American expatriates, was having a little trouble at 70 with his wartime hostess on the Riviera. She had hidden him for eight months while the Gestapo sniffed about, declared Mme. Anne Vilbert de Sairigné, and in gratitude her wealthy house guest had written her a handsome check. But when she tried to cash it she found he had stopped payment. So last week she sued for the amount: $400,000. Expatriate Frank avoided the press. A friend spoke for him, though not much...
...small, Rembrandt-like study of a bearded old Jew outshone some of the more ambitious canvases. Band had illuminated the hoary, disconsolate head as if with a Gestapo searchlight (see cut). Journalist Pierre van Paassen has said that with such somber understatements Band has "indicted a civilization." But Band takes a differing view of his work. "Although I paint sadness," he says, "I don't paint 'against' anyone. There can be no hatred in art. I paint the oppressed only because I love him; never do I paint the oppressor...