Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Special service organizations (e.g., secret police) will be abolished; only the judicial branch will have the right to arrest, try, punish...
Fifth columnists had infiltrated the enemy's ranks before the British struck, assuring the arrest of some of the most notorious dealers, including the heads of the silk-stocking racket and the jewelry trust. A cigaret girl, who tucked most of her merchandise in her underwear, demanded immediate release because she had a date with...
National Actionists in Greece went armed and carried British Army passes certifying their "confidential work." Their enemies, the hunted men of EAM, lived in peril of arrest and beatings. In Rome, the first Italian democrats to meet in parliamentary Assembly since the murder of Matteotti set themselves to restore integrity and hope to a broken nation. The withdrawal of A.M.G. from Italy was indefinitely postponed; in liberal opinion, to protect Rightists and Monarchists...
Charges enough remained. Mongibeaux asked Laval who brought him back to power in 1942, after Petain ordered his arrest. When Laval did not answer, the Judge did. "It was Abetz!" (Nazi representative to Vichyfranee). Laval cried foul: ''You asked me a question and gave the answer...
...professor of the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris to become Vichy's secretary for music. He signed an order banning Jews from all orchestras in France. Madame Lubin is now in a collaborators' concentration camp near Bordeaux; Lifar and Cortot are under house arrest...