Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army discipline, though it varies slightly with individual camp commanders (colonels and lieutenant colonels), is generally strict and according to Geneva Convention rules. The Army's chief concern is to give the enemy no excuse for retaliatory mistreatment of Americans in prison camps overseas...
Stories of prisoners enjoying special privileges are mostly baseless. Typical is the widely circulated story that girls from a nearby town went to a dance given by German P.W.s; actually the girls went to a dance held by prison guards. Another story: the Army had let a contract for 200,000 pairs of pajamas for P.W.s; the fact was that the Army ordered the pajamas for its own men in German camps...
Candidate Gomes may well be supported by the followers of another Brazilian revolutionary hero, Communist Luis Carlos Prestes, who is now doing time in a Rio prison, charged with sedition and engineering a murder from his prison cell. Brazil's unorganized leftists (together with world liberals) have long agitated for Prestes' release on the ground that he is unjustly accused. Leftist backing is contingent on Gomes' 1) plumping for Soviet recognition, 2) guaranteeing amnesty for Prestes and other political prisoners...
Bellamy was an excellent reviewer. Discussing the works of such contemporaries as Darwin and Oliver Wendell Holmes, he wrote provocatively of strikes, schools, child labor, prison camps, Brook Farm. At 32 he married a 21-year-old orphan whom his parents had adopted at 13, settled down to write short stories and historical novels (Dr. Heidenhoff's Process, The Duke of Stockbridge). William Dean Howells hailed him as a new Hawthorne. Bellamy also put his savings ($1,200) into a new paper, the Springfield Penny News, and made it prosper before he sold it to his brother...
South of Manila, 11th Division paratroopers and amphibious forces struck suddenly for the prison camp at Los Baños, 25 miles behind the Japanese lines. They caught the darkly sinister commandant, Lieut. Konishi, lining up his charges for morning roll call. They killed the lieutenant and his 243 guards, rescued 2,146 sick and starving civilian internees...