Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with his "army of liberation." Through the heavy folds of British censorship in New Delhi came word that Bose's forces numbered some 3,000 men; others, freer to speak the truth, guess that he may have as many as 30,000 Indians from Malaya and from Jap prison camps. More important than the size of his army was one explosive fact: an armed, anti-British Indian stands today on Indian soil and calls upon his fellows to rebel against...
...judgment on ultrabrutal Gestapomen. Special squads carry out the sentences. A British artist, working from a description supplied by a Polish underground officer, limned one of these epics of revenge (see cut). Several months ago death was decreed for Gestapo-man Franz Buerckl, Governor of Warsaw's Pawiak Prison. One day, as Buerckl walked the streets with wife and child, a Polish fiddler whipped a tommy gun from his violin case, shot Buerckl down, fought it out with his motorcycle escort...
...little actual evidence of it. Army officials, anxious to avoid any incident with the island's French, moved fast in the case of the Negroes. One soldier was never identified. But the other two, Edward R. Loury and Frank Fisher Jr., were quickly court-martialed and sent to prison for life...
...Berry's fare from Los Angeles to New York and return. If the jury should find that he intended to bed with her, conviction on two charges (two trips) of violating the Mann Act might bring him a maximum sentence of $10,000 fine and ten years in prison, presumably to be followed by deportation as an undesirable alien...
Americans aboard the Gripsholm (see p. 26) brought the sad news from shackled France: portly, jolly-jowled, kind-eyed Edouard Herriot is dead. He died in a prison of silence, watched by Vichy jailers. The Pétain government did not proclaim the death, did not mourn the massive liberal who was thrice Premier of France, 36 years Mayor of Lyon, always a tribune of the people...