Word: penal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stern Home Secretary Sir John Anderson announced that seven years of penal servitude or a fine of $1,750 or both is now the penalty for any Briton caught "systematically" fomenting opposition to the war, but still permitted were mere "expressions of opinion." This week Sir John will ask the House of Commons to enact "A Bill To Make Further Provision and Punishment For Treachery," imposing death as the penalty for serious cases of spying. Detectives this week were busy trying to catch up with quislings who plastered northeast London with stickers urging everyone to listen to "the new British...
...That Russell's doctrines would encourage violations of the State's penal...
...immediate aftermath of Easter Week was the execution of 5 leaders, the sentencing of 75 revolters to penal servitude, the imprisonment of 23, the internment of 1,841. Later, in London, the best known of the Easter Week conspirators, Sir Roger Casement, died on the gallows, despite the pleas of Pope Benedict XV and the U. S. Senate. British civil servant turned Irish patriot, Sir Roger had been arrested on the Irish coast only a few hours after landing from a German submarine. His trial was in the glorious tradition; before a British judge and jury he argued Ireland...
HELL ON TRIAL-René Belbenoif-Dutton ($3). No Dreyfus, but an exceedingly tenacious gadfly, the famed fugitive of Devil's Island (Dry Guillotine) here adds further smelly details about life in the French penal colony. He also deals with allegedly innocent fellow convicts. Typical is Chariot Pain. His crime was setting fire to a $5 army tent during a sun-struck moment in Africa. Legally amnestied by French law in 1925, he is still at Devil's Island, 32 years after his original sentence. But not all Belbenoit's fellow convicts were such martyrs. From their...
...Ukraine resulted in a famine which cost not less than 3,000,000 lives in 1932. It was a Stalin-made famine. The number of wrecks and industrial accidents became prodigious. Soviet officials laid it to sabotage. More likely they were due more to too rapid industrialization. Millions in penal colonies were forced into slave labor...