Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decade such nationalists as the smooth-faced, smooth-talking Soekarno, a Bandung Technical University engineering graduate, and Mohammed Hatta, who went to Amsterdam University, were getting bold ideas. They had heard of things like Communism, self-determination, revolution. In the '20s their exuberance landed both briefly in jail. Soekarno, who uses no other name, was a founder of the lusty P.N.I, (for Partai Nasional Indonesia), which the Dutch in 1929 slapped down. Even so-except for his later career-he might have become Indonesia's George Washington...
West Pubnico has 1,426 citizens, and 1,422 of them are related by birth or marriage. West Pubnico has no local taxes, no courts, no jail. Not in 15 years has anyone been arrested. Said Pubniconian Mrs. Henry Leblanc: "The Mounties from Yarmouth used to come around, but now we hardly ever see them. They just can't find any business down here." West Pubnico has no mayor nor town council, and there are no local laws...
...Alexander Kahn, whom he had met in the detention home, were charged with a murder. Kahn turned King's evidence, was freed, disappeared after pinning the murder on Fulker. Michael Fulker was found mentally unbalanced, was finally locked up in the mental wing of Bordeaux Jail. There for 20 years he was a model inmate, worked as a guard's helper. Only once did he get a brief glimpse of Montreal, when a friendly guard let him peep through a telescope...
Next morning he walked up to a policeman, asked: "How do you get to Bordeaux Jail?" There he picked up his few possessions, said goodbye to friends. He phoned the Protestant jail chaplain, the Rev. Gordon Phillips, who had helped free him, and the kindly chaplain took him to his home...
Last week São Paulo police had Ringleader Toyojito Sugai and ten colleagues in jail. Their mulcted countrymen would probably be sent back to the rice paddies...