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I saw that http://iamthewitness.com/ is now linking to an article about the experience of Admiral Sir Barry Edward Domvile who was imprisoned without trial in the UK during WW2 under Defence Reg. 18B and wrote the book: "From Admiral to Cabin Boy". Original article at: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=20200

Here's the book. Page image PDF with text under.

For background on Domvile see the start of the book and this page:
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Barry_Domvile

See also Archibald Maule Ramsay: "The Nameless War" (1952), Chapter 11, "Regulation 18B". Arnold S. Leese was another who incurred the displeasure of the secret government and spent time in jail under Reg. 18B (he had also served time for publishing his research on Blood Libel/ Jewish Ritual Murder).
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Admiral Sir Barry Domvile:
"From Admiral To Cabin Boy" (1943; published post-WWII)

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II.
The cause of our downfall was our efforts to improve the friendly relations and mutual understanding between the British and German nations before the war put a stop to all such activities.

The misfortunes suffered by ourselves and our allies in the spring and early summer of 1940 sealed our fate. ...

The first round-up of political suspects took place at the end of May. We spent the month of June in Dorset where our host was endeavouring patriotically to reclaim some poor lands for the plough. The countryside insisted that he was making a landing-ground for German parachute troops. It would have been easy to laugh at such absurdities, if they had not been so serious from our point of view.

Suspicion was rife. Our host became the target for the wildest rumours, and one fine day we were left without him.

He was on his way to Brixton Prison. At Petty Sessions and Assizes savage sentences were being passed for the most trivial misdemeanours, which a few months earlier would have landed both magistrates and judges in the pillory of public opinion. Now they were patriotic heroes. When two Jewish gentlemen in the House of Commons made enquiries in regard to my political health, and asked why my son and I were not shut up, I felt that the moment was near. We had not long to wait.

III.
On Sunday, July 7th, at about 9 p.m., a few days after our return to our home in Roehampton, a little party arrived from Scotland Yard armed with a search warrant. The only one I can identify, besides Inspector Keeble, was a Jew called Abrahams who accompanied the police, and boasted subsequently of his achievement to his friends, from one of whom it reached me.... ...