Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department and the FBI did not charge that any of the stolen documents had got into enemy hands. They demanded only the light penalty provided by the espionage law: two years in prison and a $10,000 fine...
...good news of one son, bad news about another: Guards Colonel Vassily Josefovich Stalin won the Order of Suvorov, second class; Jacob Djugashvili, son by a first marriage, was reported (by Paul Ghali of the Chicago Daily News) to have committed suicide in 1943 in the Nazi Oranienburg prison camp...
...China and of democracy were set forth last week by two students of Russian and Chinese affairs-Max Eastman, onetime Communist editor, and J. B. Powell, former editor of Shanghai's liberal China Press, who lost part of both feet as a result of mistreatment in a Japanese prison camp. In Reader's Digest they wrote...
Cecylia Mikolajczyk, 42, wife of the former premier of the London Polish Government, rejoined her husband in London after nearly three years in Nazi prison camps. Tattooed on her left arm, for permanent remembrance, is her slave number...
...most distinguished . . . of the good old Continent." In Germany, the Old School was named Dachau and Buchenwald; in Spain, it was Seville (Koestler was imprisoned there for three months, under sentence of death). There was also France's Le Vernet, Italy's Civitavecchia prison. Inmates who have been lucky enough to escape death in the Old School now wear a tie that is patterned of scars, ulcers, and a chronic condition of shakes and terror. "I dream," writes Koestler, that "I am being murdered in some kind of thicket . . .; there is a busy road at no more than...