Word: gestapoed
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...real status of Tass, a London court made a clarifying decision last week. Vladimir Krajina, a refugee Czech now living in London, had filed a libel suit against Tass for charging in a news bulletin distributed to London newspapers that he had betrayed British paratroopers to the Gestapo. The Court of Appeal dismissed Krajina's complaint. Reason: on the testimony of the Russian ambassador himself, Tass was an official organ of the Soviet state; as such, it was entitled to full diplomatic immunity, even when it published a libel...
...influence grew in Hungary, he found that his research was a handy cover for underground anti-Nazi work. One of his cloak & dagger jobs was carrying a secret letter to the British legation in Istanbul on the pretense of having to give a scientific lecture in Turkey. When the Gestapo got too close on his trail, he went completely underground disguised as an old man with beard and spectacles...
...division KS of so-called People's Police, we see the resurrection of the Gestapo of unsavory remembrance. They operate with the same methods ... It will not be necessary to give details . . . Were the ballots for the election of the Volkskongress not made exactly according to the pattern of the former National Socialists? There was a question printed in bold type which was difficult to be answered except in one way: 'yes.' . . . The whole election was based on internal dishonesty...
...three years after France fell, private art collectors for both Hitler and Goring gnashed about in search of the hidden treasure. Finally somebody tipped the Gestapo, and the collection, except for 49 paintings which the Louvre managed to keep, was carted off to Germany...
...track down the broadcasters of these titillating messages, Belgian police were patrolling the back roads of rural Limburg last week in small trucks loaded with apparatus for locating secret transmitters. But the dour, closemouthed Flemish farmers were as uncooperative as they were in the wartime days when the Gestapo hunted for Belgian underground radio operators...