Word: henchmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that has just concluded was not fought to prosecute the biggest criminal alone, but also his henchmen, accomplices and concealers. Using the words of a secret report . . . [at] the Congress of Vienna: 'Let us not forgive in the person of Murat the crimes we have punished in the person of Bonaparte...
...coming. Last week the Communist Political Association went into a special three-day convention, behind closed doors, in a midtown Manhattan clubhouse. At week's end, the 93 shirt-sleeved delegates, following their orders, had unceremoniously kicked Earl Browder off his throne, together with his two top henchmen, onetime Cartoonist Robert Minor and three-time Vice-Presidential candidate James W. Ford, a Negro...
...President. In Buenos Aires' Parque Retiro, there was a different kind of demonstration. PerÓn henchmen had invited 2,000 guests to a dinner to inaugurate a rump Radical (centrist) Party, announce Juan PerÓn's bid for the Presidency. There were shouts of "Viva PerÓn," "The nation is with...
...Russians, who had done all the investigating in Berlin, had not amended their reports that 1) no trace of Hitler had been found; 2) no believable witnesses in their custody had actually seen him die; 3) Hitler had ordered his henchmen to spread the story that he was dead...
...same day, a correspondent sat SHAEF was told that the men of Flensburg had been put on a "seize and freeze" basis. Another SHAEF account said that they were under arrest. In other words, Doenitz and his henchmen faced incarceration and, possibly, punishment as war criminals. Meanwhile, at least until the Allies could find other administrators, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz remained, in the eyes of defeated Germans, and to the alarm of Russia, the acknowledged governor of Germany...