Word: incommunicado
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...until last week when they appeared briefly at a hearing at which Donovan sought to have his indictment quashed. Some testified they were just standing around and watching the raid when they were arrested. After the hearing, the bewildered Negroes were sent back to jail. There they remained, still incommunicado; finally a Federal judge stepped in this week to give them a hearing. But to all others in the county the warning was clear: don't be even an innocent bystander when Frank Hague is out for vengeance...
Birthdays. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, 71, second oldest member of the Cabinet (oldest: Henry L. Stimson, 75); on vacation in Virginia. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 73; incommunicado at Poona...
...that a break was coming occurred in August: the Maharaja announced a new constitution that would abolish the burden of debt on his peasantry. He invited foreign friends to a durbar to celebrate. They found the Maharaja held virtually incommunicado by his ministers. Hundreds of village chieftains waited patiently for him. So did huge ceremonial elephants, with painted toenails and hats like those of Dumbo's mother. When the Maharaja finally showed up, his Magna Charta looked greatly altered. His ministers looked smug...
Martyr. Kept incommunicado in the Aga Khan's palace at Poona, Gandhi could scarcely know that his third great mass movement in 20 years was turning into a revolution despite five weeks of ruthless police prosecution. As before, being in jail increased Gandhi's prestige as a legend and a martyr. His followers secretly printed a fiery Congress Newsletter which heated the campaign to halt factory work, disrupt transportation, close down schools, stores and civil administration...
...Japanese have held three fundamentalist Presbyterian missionaries incommunicado in Manchukuo since Oct. 22. Protests by the U.S. State Department have failed even to elicit the charge against the missionaries. Four days after the arrest at Harbin, the Japanese hustled the trio-Dr. and Mrs. Roy M. Byram, the Rev. Bruce Hunt-500 miles south to Antung, on the Korean border. Probable reason: to make them testify at the trial of the Korean Christians arrested for refusing to take part in State Shinto rites. Secondary reason: to frighten remaining U.S. missionaries out of Manchukuo...