Word: arraignment
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...Still," he continues, "there is a question whether Israel has made a reasonably sound choice. One possibility, as Mr. Telford Taylor has suggested, would have been to arraign Eichmann in an Israeli court with full opportunity for the prosecution and the accused to present charges and defenses, and then to remit Eichmann to the United Nations for any further action that body might decide to take. Would that course have led merely to a flasco? It is at least clear that the United Nations did not come forward to claim Eichmann after his capture. Neither did Western Germany...
...concerns were in great part responsible for Britain's early recognition of the Peking regime), officials are circumspect about cracking down. Communists openly circulate their publications and run their businesses (the tallest building in Hong Kong, by 20 ft., is a Communist bank). Nevertheless, the police arrest and arraign and deport suspected Red troublemakers before a lawyer can say habeas corpus. The popular view among official and unofficial Hong Kong is that the Communists are strong but not strong enough to kick up the kind of violence they precipitated last spring in Singapore. They may be able to terrorize...
...fines on smaller, less prosperous newspapers, announced that it would accept donations to pay possible future penalties. As the freedom fund grew, El Espectador continued its opposition, published a cable from former President Eduardo Santos that said tersely, "The fines with which you were honored serve once again to arraign the Office of Information and Propaganda, with its scandalous doings, before the incorruptible tribunal of public opinion...
Promptly at 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, amid the marble columns and bronze grillwork of a onetime bank, the 108 members of the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party gathered to arraign one of their distinguished members on charges of heresy. Tito himself was in charge. The man in the dock: Comrade Djilas...
Osensibly gunning for members of communist, fascist, and totalitarian groups only, the order encompasses a disproportionately wide field and gives alarming powers of accusation to the Attorney General. By allowing federal inquisitors to arraign any man remotely sympathetic to a foreign ideology, the President has opened the way for subversion of democratic rights to the dictates of public opinion and the fears of hyper-sensitive officials. Under the new plan, the Attorney-General has the power to decide which groups constitute a menace to the security of the nation. This widespread discrimination in the hands of an over-zealous...