Word: jails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Consul General Angus Ward hurried from a Communist people's court in Mukden, Manchuria last week to telephone the news to the nearest American diplomat, 400 miles away in Peiping. Ward and four members of his consulate staff had been freed from a Communist jail and were to be deported from Red China...
...State Department pieced together the humiliating story. After holding the U.S. consulate members incommunicado for nearly a month (TIME, Nov. 21), the Communists had staged a hasty "trial," and convicted Ward and his aides of "brutally assaulting" a Chinese servant. The Reds' kangaroo court sentenced the five to jail for three to six months, imposed a stiff fine, then suspended the sentences and ordered them deported...
...election. Arnulfistas roamed the capital, shouting, singing, smashing up Liberal Party headquarters, beating and knifing Liberals caught in the streets. Three ex-Presidents, including Chanis, hastily checked in at the Canal Zone's Hotel Tivoli, so as to avoid checking in at Panama City's model jail...
...went to Moscow in 1936 to interview Joseph Stalin he also met a bearded, scholarly American named Angus Ward, then U.S. consul in Moscow. He heard of him no more until last October, when he read that Ward, by then U.S. consul in Mukden, Manchuria, had been clapped in jail by the Chinese Communist government. Like many another indignant American, Roy Howard waited for stern and decisive action by the U.S. State Department to get its consul out of jail. After a wait of weeks, while State hemmed & hawed and did nothing either stern or effective, Roy Howard...
Hearst's Heald-American had been on the street only a few minutes before Cook County Jail Superintendent Chester L. Fordney cried: "The picture is a fake...