Word: roundup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unleashing the Sleuths. Palmer, who had ambitions to succeed Wilson as President, finally did something. He ordered a roundup of suspicious aliens, a project partly supervised by the young J. Edgar Hoover. Justice Department agents zealously invaded homes and made many arrests without warrants. They pulled people out of pool halls and other public places and jammed them into overcrowded detention centers. When they raided meeting halls, they sometimes did not bother to find out who was meeting; in one instance, they jailed 39 people who were meeting to form a bakery cooperative. Since the Sedition Act of 1918 allowed...
Anne Frank's nightmares finally ended in the concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen in March 1945. Last week the man who, as Adolf Eichmann's legal expert, helped organize the roundup of Anne and 110,000 other Dutch Jews was arrested in Austria and held for investigation on the charge of having "aided and abetted" the massacre. He was former SS Captain Erich Rajakowitsch, 57, for whom life as a respectable businessman in Italy had abruptly come...
...alive have suffered more for their God and their convictions than Josef Cardinal Mindszenty. 71. Archbishop of Esztergom and Roman Catholic Primate of Hungary. During World War II, he was jailed by the Nazis for protesting against the roundup of Hungary's Jews. After the war. he fought the Communist takeover of his country, and in 1949 was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment on trumped-up charges of treason, espionage and black marketing. The Western world bled for the gaunt, tortured prelate, mechanically confessing his guilt for nonexistent crimes before an unfeeling judge. Briefly freed...
...loyal F.L.N. fighter for Algeria's freedom. Now he was just another enemy of Premier Ahmed ben Bella-a member of the underground Party of the Socialist Revolution, which today accuses Ben Bella of "neocolonialism, personal dictatorship and sabotage of the revolution." Caught with Harraig in the roundup were about 40 fellow ringleaders in the underground party. Government agents also had their eyes on Algiers' Communists, whose organization now was outlawed. Ben Bella hastened to add that he had not banned the Communist Party-or any other group-for ideology alone. "It is simply prohibited," explained Information Minister...
...catastrophe, Father Daniel has been a fervent Zionist since his childhood in Poland. During the German occupation he posed as a Silesian Christian, and, working as a police interpreter, he managed to save half the Jewish community of the town of Mir by warning them of an imminent Nazi roundup. Rufeisen spent the next 15 months hiding in a convent. Baptized by the nuns, Father Daniel joined the Carmelite Order in Poland, gave up his Polish passport to come to Israel...