Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Minister, who advised action by Britain's Attorney-General, Sir Donald Somervell. Early last week the Attorney-General informed Sandys that unless he revealed the source of his information, the Official Secrets Act would be applied, making him liable to a two-year prison sentence. Sandys refused. The Army Council then created a three-man board of inquiry, headed by General Sir Edmund Ironside, governor and commander-in-chief of Gibraltar, which promptly summoned the M. P. to appear for trial...
Five countries-Germany, Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania-now execute foreign spies. Soviet Russia uses the firing squad on her own nationals caught "wrecking" and spying, but sometimes lets foreigners off with prison sentences...
...years some of the world's most lurid, blood-curdling "true-story" prison tales have come out of experiences, real and embellished, gained in France's famed penal colony in French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America. Horror stories deluxe have told of men working stark naked in the sizzling tropical jungle, of lust, greed, murder, homosexuality in prison cages crammed with killers, rapists, thieves. Other tales have told of years of maddening isolation in "bear pits" on one of the three Iles du Salut (variously translated as "Safety Isles" and "Isles of Salvation...
Most of French Guiana's chroniclers have followed a pat formula. The story usually starts with the teller being convicted of a felony. In a temporary prison at the citadel of St. Martin-de-Ré, in the Bay of Biscay, the convict awaits the sailing of the plodding 3,800-ton "hellship" La Martinière, formerly a German freighter, now outfitted with steel-girded cells and mutiny-suppressing hot-steam hose. Into her hold go Foreign Legion deserters, Algerian Spahis convicted of rape, French Indo-Chinese murderers, Circassian thieves, arch-crooks from Montmartre. The ship arrives...
...This was called the "kitchen knife campaign" because Maurras incited his readers, if they had no other weapons, to go after Leon Blum and 140 left Deputies with kitchen knives. When, acting on his advice. Royalists seriously wounded Blum and his wife, Maurras was sentenced to a year in prison. Republican officials permitted him, however, to outfit his cell as a library, and Maurras continued to turn out an ever more venomous two-column daily tirade against the Government. Marking the anniversary of his imprisonment, fellow Royalists presented him with a "civic crown" of beaten gold...