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Into the record she read a letter from a constituent telling how a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman had said that she would be framed and that the Mounties had been ordered to "keep their eyes and ears open" because she would soon be interned. "I would say," she went on, "that if this Canadian version of the Gestapo continues . . . the Government will have to answer to the Canadian people...
...back streets, until they came to a parked car with the keys in it. They stole it. They had never driven, but William had seen his mother do it, so he climbed behind the wheel and started off. Some 48 hours later, after stealing two more cars (one a policeman's with a .38-calibre revolver inside), after sleeping one night in a sand pit, one night in a dog kennel, they stopped at last at Echo Lake-a small, boarded-up summer resort where frame cottages stood cold and bleak in the New Jersey woods. They broke...
Back in 1923, when the U. S. was beginning to worry about its gang wars, young Jan Valtin and 27 fellow Communists, armed with guns and hand grenades, attacked five policemen in a station in Hamburg ("From the floor a policeman was still firing. The stevedore crushed his face with a kick of his heavy boot. Another policeman had the side of his neck torn away; he was bleeding to death under a table. . . ."). While the U. S. was worrying about the depression in 1930, Conspirator Valtin was carrying money from Antwerp to Montevideo, glued into the lining...
Burglar. In Pleasantville, N. Y., a police lieutenant snooping for a grocery store burglar discovered a policeman making off with...
...London, where a well-trimmed imperial might nowadays conceal a secret agent, a policeman looked suspiciously at bearded Bank of England Governor Montagu Norman inspecting a bomb crater near the Bank, asked him whether he had any business there. Norman replied casually that he worked in a bank. "Well, sir," sniffed the bobby, "how about buzzing off and doing a bit of banking...