Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only obedient tools, they were ideologically convinced tools. The defendants are victims of a foreign influence." Another made it even plainer where his sympathies really lay. "My client," he said, "is a weak-willed person [who] sold out to the Anglo-Americans. I ask for one year in prison for my client. If he does not like the way I am defending him, he ought to be frank...
...Thus cheered on by the defense, Prosecutor Dimiter Georgiev saw no reason to prolong the trial. He produced no documentary evidence of the espionage charge and cut his witnesses short. Said he: "The evidence is abundant and clear." He demanded the death penalty for four of the defendants, heavy prison terms for the others...
Last week Presiding Judge Konstantin Undzhiev pronounced sentence. Because of the "pastors' honest and sincere confessions," said Undzhiev, he had waived the death penalty. The four principal defendants-the heads of Bulgaria's Congregational, Baptist, Methodist and Pentecostal churches-got life imprisonment; nine of their associates drew prison terms ranging from five to 15 years, and two got off with suspended sentences...
From Germany's Landsberg Prison (where his friend Adolf Hitler once wrote Mein Kampf), ex-Gunmaker Alfred Krupp denied a report that he passed the time making toy guns. The fact was that Krupp was using his twelve-year term to resume the trade of his ancestors; he had become a locksmith...
...word, stubby, rugged Editor Kung, who has well earned his reputation as China's most outspoken editor, reached for his hat. After 25 years of writing what he thought - and eight previous arrests - Kung knew what to expect. He told his wife: "You can reach me at the prison." The day before, Kung had written a long, angry editorial accusing retired President Chiang Kai-shek of "manipulating" the Chinese government from "behind the screen." Unless Chiang "goes abroad," wrote Kung, "the nation and the people will be ruined." Some Chinese had said this privately; no other editor had dared...