Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terror, Poland approached its first nationwide popular election, ten days hence. By last week most of the combined opposition (Socialist and Polish Peasant Party) candidates had been jailed, and their supporters more or less completely cowed by the secret police, by striking their names from voting lists and by arrest. The Communist-dominated Government ventured to predict an "overwhelming" victory. According to the Potsdam Agreement, the Polish elections must be absolutely free and secret...
...security police are believed to number some 170,000 full-time employes, some 20,000 more men than there are in the regular army. Between 50 and 60 thousand are engaged in routine snooping and spying. The rest are mobilized in flying squads for mass arrests or operations against the "underground." The underground, official label for practically any group that opposes the Government, is also the official excuse for UB activities. The secret police may arrest without warrant anyone in Poland except district secretaries and higher officials of the Communist Party...
Special agents trailing him made the arrest yesterday afternoon outside a Newton liquor store, as their unsuspecting quarry, whom they had patiently followed for several days, tried once too often to turn a pilfered GI check in folding money...
...freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly"-and ignores all three except for carefully selected "Soviet selfcriticism" that promotes Party goals. It provides universal suffrage, but voters can merely endorse one hand-picked slate. Soviet citizens are "guaranteed inviolability of the person," though the secret police arrest anyone they please...
Soon other cases turned up. Friedman treated them with the hospital's 1,000,000-volt X-ray machine, "Big Bertha," found that he could arrest their cancers if he adjusted the X-ray dose to the contents of the tumor, i.e., one dose for bone, another for lung, etc. All told, he treated 256 G.I.s with cancer of the testes, got a high percentage of improvement...