Word: dossiers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Preparing the Dossier. But more serious critics assailed the French judicial system itself. Under French law. there is no grand jury; instead, there is the juge d'instruction, whom Balzac called the most powerful man in the Republic. He performs the role of investigating magistrate. His great power is that, on his decision, and his alone, he can put any suspect in jail under "preventive detention'' while he investigates the case and prepares a dossier for the trial. Such "preventive detentions" can last for years...
...dossier is one of tyranny's most useful tools. Under the Communists, not even the highest official is exempt. In his dossier are recorded the youthful mistake, the relative's sin, the forgotten careless statement. The victim may walk free as air, but the dossier is like a terrible hook, invisibly lodged in his vitals. With a twitch of the string, it can bring a man down. It can even humble a nation...
Steaming with indignation, Austria's Chancellor Julius Raab himself stalked into Ilyichev's office to protest. Blandly, Ilyichev produced the dossier, which included a picture of Sokolowski in a German uniform and a 1944 Austrian police record listing him as a deserter from the Russian army. The Russians had thoughtfully stolen both from Vienna police headquarters in 1945, tucked them away for use in their own time...
...officials who called at the High Commission are "representatives of the Austrian people," and that any charges against them could be investigated only through Austrian channels. Snapped Raab: "This is an unprecedented abuse of right and justice, but it will never break our will." With a flick of a dossier, the Russians had effectively reminded occupied Austria who pulls the strings-and who must jump...
...first year of freedom, no fewer than 40% of Burma's elected M.P.s and their supporters came out in armed revolt against Prime Minister U Nu. Trade, commerce and government revenues slumped; the civil service fell away, demoralized. In police HQ, Pegu Province, a weary superintendent checked his dossier: "Of 21 stations in my district, I hold only six. The other 15 are held by five kinds of insurgents." In faraway London, Winston Churchill, then in opposition, rumbled...