Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tied to the stake, Laval stood facing the rifle points. "Vive la France," he cried. The volley sent a chilly stir through the prison building...
Then there was the question of paper: our first consignment from stateside-40 tons-was mysteriously shunted from the sidewalk in front of the printers to Bilibid Prison and then to a windowless warehouse near the Pasig River. When we finally got most of it back our Manila staff took turns guarding it day and night; it was worth $75,000 on the black market...
...Atomic Energy Commission to be appointed by the President would have power to seize property needed to develop atomic energy, to control raw materials entering the process, to forbid or subsidize private research, to direct Government research. Stiff penalties, ranging up to 30 years in prison, were provided for infractions of the commission's rulings...
...hours prison doctors labored over the prostrate Auvergnat with emetics and stomach pumps. They postponed his death, but they could not make him stand up. The firing squad waited. At length two men escorted him to the stake. A hearse stood by, a coffin rested on the ground...
Pierre Laval spent his last days in sackcloth in the death row of the Fresnes prison. He wrote farewell letters to his family, his lawyers. He chain-smoked. His grieving wife cried that the people who "got France into the war so unprepared" now wanted to silence him with death. General Charles de Gaulle refused every request for a new or re-opened trial; the grotesquerie of the first one had revolted all France...