Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...western democracies were determined to wedge their philosophy into the document. Under Truman's leadership, that philosophy was recognized in references to free access to the news of eastern Europe; to "free and unfettered" elections in Poland; to a democratic Germany. Some of those checks would be hard to cash. Even so, the three signatures on them meant something to a world recovering from one totalitarian menace and fearful of another...
...itself. But narrower legal points had accounted for most of the recent discussion. Example: should the indictments be short (Anglo-American practice), or an almost complete statement of the prosecution's case (Continental practice)? A French expert described the resulting compromise: "A Continental lawyer looking at the document will object because it is based on Saxon law; a Saxon lawyer will claim it's based on Continental law-this proves it is good...
Decline of a Slogan. The declaration was the work of a Big Three meeting. But it was not a Big Three document. It was, above all, a U.S. document...
That surprised stocky, Hungarian-born Emery Reves, prewar agent for most of Europe's writer-statesmen (Churchill, Eden, Reynaud, Sforza, etc.). From long experience Agent Reves thought that he knew an important document when he saw one. The Attlee piece was his first postwar offering. Last week, when Labor won and Attlee became Prime Minister, some 35 of the previously disinterested papers changed their minds, sent him rush orders for the article...
This book is his effort to carry out the resolution he made in Athens-to survive and speak out. It is a damning document. Sometimes its sodden weight of human malevolence, its recurrent three-note theme of jailed, tried, shot, is all but unbearable. One little story, a tiny detail of suffering, could stand for the whole tragedy that it highlights. Marshal Tukhachevsky's twelve-year-old daughter was not informed that he had been liquidated overnight. But when she got to school the next day, the other children shouted abuse at her and refused...