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...Justice & Charity. Last November, the Communists began to close in on Mindszenty. His residence was watched night & day. The Reds took over a nearby factory and turned it into a dormitory for the 80 plainclothesmen assigned to guard the cardinal's palace. Mindszenty knew what was coming. He wrote: "I do not accuse my accusers ... I am praying for a world of justice and charity and also for those who, in the words of my Master, know not what they...
Between Dzerzhinsky Street and Little Lubyanka Street in the heart of Moscow, on Furkasovsky Alley, stands a new yellow brick, nine-story building, resplendent with black marble pilasters. Sentries are posted at the doors. Up and down, the Alley plainclothesmen saunter with studied unconcern. This is the home of the all-powerful EKU (Ekonomicheskoe Upravlenie), economic division of NKVD...
...Berlin since the occupation began. Trouble had started, before the elections, in the main administration offices of huge Bewag (Berliner Elektrizitätswerke A.G.). The Russians and their stooges, trying to destroy Bewag's predominantly non-Communist works council, had arrested six men and stationed police and plainclothesmen in the building. At a noisy, protest meeting, 3,000 Germans decided on a walkout unless their men were freed and the cops removed. Jumping on a chair, one of the works councilors shouted: "Freedom is not won by words but by actions. Let's show these so-called revolutionaries...
...almost wartime secrecy encased the meeting. Black-jacketed, blue-breeched Dutch state police in peaked caps reached for delegates' passes with their left hands, kept their right hands close to their revolver holsters. In hotel lobbies plainclothesmen sipped Bols gin, eyed everyone coming through the revolving doors. Remarked one stolid Dutch cop at the Hotel des Indes: "I don't know what we're watching for, but whatever it is, he won't get away with...
...Philadelphia, Plainclothesmen Frank Wolf and Stephen Chambers spent four months betting on the numbers and horses in order to nab gamblers, made 50 arrests...