Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Government on Trial. Scrupulously adhering to international law, Britain put the seven on trial for "revolt against the authority of the master of a ship on the high seas." Britain's big community of Polish exiles (200,000) rallied to the sailors' defense. Mostly veterans of General Wladyslaw Anders' army, which fought gallantly in Italy, they have little money, bicker constantly over the shadows of power left to their government in exile, but instantly unite when it is a question of combating the Communist Warsaw government. Pennies, shillings and pounds poured in, enough to hire Britain...
...London's musty Bow Street court, crowded with Polish exiles, Shawcross in effect put the Polish government itself on trial. Said he: "These men are charged with what amounts to mutiny ... It might have been revolt on the high seas, but it was political revolt against political tyranny on a vessel being run by a political officer with more powers than the captain." He introduced as evidence a persuader found in the political officer's cabin-a spring-handled bludgeon. "It seems a curious form of political argument," said Shawcross dryly...
...Revolt in a Parish. Recognizing a tricky legal issue, the judge referred the case to the High Court of Justice on the ground that there had been no legal reinterpretation of mutiny since the last century. Last week, after hearing Sir Hartley argue that the Puszczyk was in reality "a small territorial unit or parish of Poland," and that the seamen had only "revolted from what they regarded as the tyranny of a police state," Lord Goddard, Lord Chief Justice, ordered the prisoners freed. Happily, the Polish community threw a huge coming-out party for the seven, who had established...
When Butcher had asked the Fellowship to consider sending the surplusses, Cole said, "Let them starve, maybe the people will revolt." He was backed by Robert A. Knudson '58, another Conservative, who said, "Let the Chinese starve, it's an act of God. At any rate, we ought to feed the people in the Bowery first...
...hotel. A big American flag spanned the wall of the reception room. Five telephones jangled constantly. Mail poured in. Greeting visitors to the headquarters offices was Rear Admiral John G. Crommelin, who retired from the Navy in 1950 after being officially reprimanded for his part in the "admirals' revolt" against the B-36. After talking in Washington to Joe McCarthy, Crommelin went to Florida and, in consultation with General Stratemeyer, conceived the idea of the Ten Million movement. Now Crommelin bears the title of "chief of staff...