Word: dossiers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trinkets in Triplicate. Before leaving her villa on Lake Garda to join Mussolini on their final journey, La Petacci entrusted the whole agonized portfolio of her stormy love to two friends, Carlo and Caterina Cervis, who shared her villa. The dossier, inventoried in triplicate by the methodical Clara, included most of the "Dear Ben" letters she had written to Benito, plus recordings of her lover's own speeches and copies of his letters, a trunkful of trinkets and keepsakes, and volumes of diaries, including one kept on toilet paper during her imprisonment by the Badoglio government...
...Zoll has done it again. The noted protagonist of academic enslavement has brought out a new dossier, "Reducators in Leading Women's Colleges." Of course, it is no worse than "Reducators at Harvard," for the amount by which a principle is violated cannot be measured--in this case, freedom from guilt by association. But Allen Zoll has shown himself more deadly than before. He has extended his original limitations, "officially designated subversive organizations" and now in his lists also includes members of groups which he himself classes as anti-American...
...when Bonn clamped down on this trade, he switched westward, made $700,000 profit this year out of trading German steel for U.S. coal. Schlieker now claims to be a reformed character. To prove it, he recently gave Düsseldorf $475,000 for workers' housing. A British dossier concludes: "Schlieker is a ruthless opportunist, vain, ambitious and egotistical . . . With his ability, ruthlessness and adaptability, he seems destined for a leading role in Ruhr industry whatever form of organization it adopts in the future...
Once his thought compendium is accepted, the graduate is assigned a job, perhaps with a land reform team, or in Korea, or at a bureaucratic desk. He has no choice of jobs. And along with him, wherever he goes, goes his dossier, always there to be used against...
...four months he had had in his possession the complete Communist file of the evidence, prepared by the trial's original prosecutor, handsome, 34-year-old Heinz Perscheid, who fled to West Germany last August rather than proceed with the case. Perscheid's dossier was dynamite. It proved that the Red's judicial masquerade was staged to smash the Liberal Democratic Party, to which the defendants belonged, because it had refused to collaborate with the Socialist Unity (Communist) Party. Perscheid had received special tutelage from Fritz Lange, chairman of East Germany's State Control Commission. Perscheid...