Word: imprison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Magistrates were authorized to fine ?100, and/or imprison for three months, anyone convicted of destroying cardboard or paper...
...took up the argument recently launched by James Richard Baron Atkin, 74, in one of the most notable dissenting opinions of recent times. Last month Lord Atkin protested against the power of the Home Secretary, under defense legislation, to by-pass the traditional democratic right of habeas corpus and imprison persons at his own discretion, not subject to court interference (TIME...
...Working with the bulk of the German Army, which kills or imprisons the enemy physically, are the military Economic Mobile Units, which kill or imprison him materially and financially. These dashing arms of the service are largely the creation of Engineer Fritz Todt and General Georg Thomas. Todt's boys specialize in wrecking and saving: carrying off to Germany everything that can be carried, supervising and maintaining for German benefit everything that cannot. They are speedy and efficient at repairing and replacing damaged equipment and property in war-torn regions. Versatile, they are equally able to strip a country...
...Imprison suspected Fifth Columnists without trial...
From Hitler's viewpoint the most dangerous aspect of Christian resistance is the refusal of thousands of churches, both Protestant and Catholic, to pray for a Nazi victory. The Gestapo can silence all open attacks from the pulpit, can imprison all outspoken pastors and forbid bishops to write pastoral letters, but it cannot make them pray for Nazi success. That situation is unparalleled in a nation at war. Even the Schwarze Korps, organ of the Elite Guard, admits it: "The spiritual gentlemen . . . write as though they want to make our soldiers dislike the war. They do not find...