Word: incommunicado
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...Chinese Communists dropped their Bamboo Curtain over the U.S. consulate general in the Manchurian metropolis. Communist guards virtually imprisoned the n Americans, led by kindly, goateed Consul General Angus I. Ward, within their consular compound, denied them radio facilities, branded them as "espionage organs." Last week, after seven incommunicado months, Angus Ward finally got a letter through to the U.S. consul general in Peiping. His staff was safe and morale "good." But Angus Ward had no word as to when & how he could follow Washington's order of last May-to leave Communist Mukden and its bamboo bars...
This time, the more efficient Communist police gave him barely time to kiss his weeping, 85-year-old mother goodbye. Quietly, he said: "Very well," and quietly entered the waiting police car, rosary in hand. Sticking closely to the Sofia decisions, the government announced that Mindszenty was being held incommunicado on suspicion of "treason, attempting to overthrow the democratic regime, espionage and foreign currency abuses." The Communists gave out a long list of incriminating documents said to have been found in "a metal box buried in a cellar in the cardinal's palace...
...They Are Coming." Jake had only tried to do his duty-Russian style. He had brought Mrs. Kasenkina back from Countess Tolstoy's New York farm and held her incommunicado at the consulate. After she had jumped, Jake concocted one story. Then last week he tried another story. Mrs. Kasenkina had seen "a crowd running from the Hotel Pierre towards the consulate," he said, and it had frightened her. He said she was depressed by the "malicious fabrications" of the U.S. press and overwrought by "threats of the United States police" to haul her into court "by force...
...last night, Stillman Infirmary had only two casuaties to report. A pair of students who broke down during one of their tests were rushed to hospital beds and kept incommunicado "until they were able to think clearly again...
While the finance division of the Boston Veterans Administration office remained incommunicado so they could concentrate on getting out subsistence checks, the Weld Hall Veterans Office turned up midway through its University-wide check survey the information that from 16 to 39 percent are behind in their compensation...