Word: incommunicado
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...Allied rule of Franklin Roosevelt's good friend Getulio Vargas, has a postal censorship so rigid that almost any criticism of its Government is a criminal offense. According to a returning traveler, an American businessman recently wrote a letter lambasting Brazilian business practices. He was jailed, held incommunicado for three days, then sent home on a plane. Finally Ambassador Jefferson Caffery heard of the case, made representations...
...Italian Legation guard in Peiping and small Italian garrisons in Tientsin and Shanhaikwan were disarmed. The Italian diplomatic mission in Tokyo was confined to its quarters and held incommunicado. The bulk of the 1,100 Italian nationals in the Far East, of whom almost 900 are in Shanghai, were interned or placed under guard, and must register their assets and list their properties with Japanese military authorities...
...hopeful girls, 33 in all, were held practically incommunicado. (City fathers were sure that the 10,000 soldiers, sailors, Coast Guardsmen in the area were all on the prowl.) The girls were forbidden dates, drinking, smoking, gum-chewing. They could not talk to a man "without permission." They were surrounded at all times by a massed armada of gimlet-eyed chaperons, including 20 of their mamas, and a special platoon of Atlantic City matrons, hand-picked for their motherliness. Six well-armed Atlantic City cops, on "antiwolf patrol" under Acting Sergeant Robert Silvagni, flanked the girls wherever they went...
...choice of Wavell, who has been trained in neither politics nor diplomacy, upset such expectations. But nothing could upset Indian mistrust of British motives, Indian resentment over the incommunicado imprisonment of Mohandas Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and thousands of fellow nationalists. From New Delhi, TIME Correspondent William Fisher reported...
...Gandhi, thinner than ever, his head propped on pillows, had broken his fast with a glass of orange juice in the Aga Khan's palace. Gandhi, whom the world's press last week had almost forgotten to call "Mahatma" ("Great Soul") was again just a prisoner, held incommunicado and charged with inciting revolt in wartime...