Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Setup. Around these two men -one an ex-U.S. Senator, ex-Supreme Court Justice, ex-War Mobilizer, the other a smart, prosecutor-type, young (36) attorney-Harry Truman would build a new official family. Among the true New Dealers there were few whom Truman liked; there would be some Cabinet changes made in the weeks and months ahead. And the "Palace Guard" of Roosevelt days would swiftly disappear...
...poker-hot letters of protest, from President Lorenzo Maroni of Rome's High Court of Justice and Public Prosecutor Mario Berlinguer, finally forced official notice of the uproar. After a meeting of the Cabinet, Umberto, acting in his capacity as Commander in Chief of the Royal Navy, had the pleasure of proclaiming that his polo-playing cousin had got the sack...
...nervous tic in the left cheek and a shock of unruly grey hair arrived unexpectedly in Bucharest, from Moscow. Andrei Januari Vishinsky, Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, looked more than ever like an absentminded, amiable professor. But the Kremlin's ace trouble-shooter - and the tigerish prosecutor of the Moscow Old Bolshevik trials - had not come out of absentmindedness...
...Then the prosecutor briefly "summed up the case against Maurras. In L'Action Française he had denounced patriots by name, caused some to be arrested and shot. The judge and four lay consultants deliberated for 90 minutes. Their verdict: Maurras was guilty of treason. His sentence: life imprisonment at hard labor...
Judge Pailhé summoned the witnesses. They testified, and their evidence was damning. Chack had received 68,000 francs a month from the Vichy Government, had founded a French "Aryan Club." The public prosecutor pointed at the defendant, cried: "I demand that you be shot. . . . Such a man as you can expect no mercy...