Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undoubtedly right. All these publications are helping to influence civilian voters more or less, for better or for worse. But the Army was obeying orders-the orders written by Congress into Title V of the new Soldier Vote Act which provides $1,000 fine and a year in prison for anyone sending political propaganda to the troops...
...execution of the Doolittle raiders Japan had no explanation within civilized military usage; this time, if its explanation was to be trusted, it had legal excuse. Japan's story: the three Americans, confined in a Manchurian prison camp, had broken out, walked for ten days headed toward Russian territory. A police inspector had stopped them, been told they were stranded German flyers. They had led him into the country, ostensibly to examine their wrecked plane, there had killed him with a kitchen knife...
Protocol. At the Utah State Prison. Warden J. H. Harris warned his charges not to use the colloquialism, "We wuz robbed!" during baseball games. Both umpires, he explained, were doing time for robbery...
Threat, Kindness, Shop Talk. With this piece of information-and Williams' hint that low-level bombing is the unit's specialty-the prison camp's commandant quickly calls the bluff of a cocky U.S. technical sergeant who has lied to him about the unit number, base and other matters. The commandant follows up by threatening to shoot Captain Spencer unless the surprised sergeant spills some more. The sergeant spills. In another part of the camp, another sergeant is getting the reverse treatment: after a scary but harmless session in a hotbox cell, he is lured into blabbing...
...Pierre Vienot, 46, popular, hard-working Gaullist envoy to Britain; of a heart attack; in London. Lean, hooknosed Vienot rejected the armistice of 1940, escaped to North Africa, where Pierre Laval had him arrested and brought to France for imprisonment. He escaped, reached London sick from war wounds and prison privations, thereafter worked himself to death...