Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgrade prison cell, Draja Mihailovich awaited trial for treason (though he claimed that he had fought against Germany for his king & country). Marshal Tito (who had fought more effectively against Germany, but for Stalin & Communism) spoke sentence ahead of the judges: "[His] crimes against the people of Yugoslavia are far too big and horrible [to permit discussion of] whether he is guilty or not." 500-odd U.S. airmen who had fought in Yugoslavia disagreed...
Unlike Nephew Leo, Uncle Philibert laughed at police traps, led the cops Mack Sennett chases. Sometimes he found temporary refuge in a tree, sometimes in Belgium, sometimes in the constitutional immunity of the Chamber of Deputies. But he died (1941) in Riom prison...
...Milan, where St. Ambrose preached of peace and Leonardo painted his Last Supper, a handsome young bandit, Ezio Barbieri, was on trial last week for his part in the April revolt at San Vittore prison. A woman shouted to Barbieri that his newborn baby weighed 8½ Ibs. Modern Milan's son shouted back across the courtroom: "Is the Tommy gun included in that weight...
...Rock's siren wailed across the Bay. Outside the cell block, James J. Johnston, 71-year-old warden, known to the inmates as "Saltwater" Johnston, radioed for help to San Francisco police and the Coast Guard. Johnston's remaining guards herded 150 prisoners out of prison shops and into the yard. Other prisoners crouched in their cells...
Despite their shortages, the Dutch public will not tolerate a black market, though there is some illegal traffic in cigarets (the legal weekly ration is 40). Dealers in the "poison market," as it is labeled by the Government, are sent to Veenhuizen prison to make shoes, one of Holland's scarcest commodities...