Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, in a barren cell under the Washington courtroom where he is on trial for sedition, Naziphile George Sylvester Viereck Sr., already serving a one-to-five-year prison term as an unregistered agent of the Reich, listened stolidly as his wife broke the news to him. The Vierecks' other son, Sergeant Peter Viereck, author of a critical book on the origins of National Socialism, is now in North Africa...
Reports last week from Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, said that 150 Japanese had surrendered there. Some of them stood beside a road until a U.S. truck gave them a lift to prison camp...
From Gandhi's prison in the Aga Khan's shabby villa at Poona, doctors' bulletins went to Viceroy the Viscount Wavell in New Delhi. The Raj had never intended to let the old man die in custody, and thereby become a martyr in the eyes of India's restive masses. The Viceroy, with a nod from London at the proper medical moment, ordered Gandhi's release...
Next day the old man wrapped himself in his shawl, passed through his prison's iron gates. Outside, a cluster of followers cheered him. Wanly he smiled back. He had spent 21 isolated, sorrow-steeped months in the Aga Khan's villa ; there his Boswellian secretary, Mahadev Dezai, and his loyal wife, Kasturbai, had died (TIME, March 6). Now he journeyed to nearby Parnakuti, the rambling, white stone residence of his longtime friend, the wealthy, widowed Lady Vittal das Thackersey...
...particularly resented the majority's plan to send "greetings and love" alike to servicemen, conscientious objectors, and those "in prison." Said he: "We claim that our Church has no right to honor the man convicted of obstructing the administration of the Selective Service Act." Neither did he see "the propriety" of honoring conscientious objectors "in the same manner as soldiers...