Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of becoming President, Herbert Burgman, a bald, frail, unimpressive little man, became the most thoroughly indicted traitor in U.S. history (69 counts of treason). On trial in Washington's U.S. District Court, he tried to save himself with a plea of insanity...
...plea failed. Last week, confined to a wheelchair by a heart attack, 53-year-old Herbert Burgman became the twelfth U.S. citizen to be convicted of treason during World...
...assigned by the court to defend Anthony Cramer, charged with treason for helping Nazi agents who had been landed in the U.S. by U-boat. He lost in the lower courts, but won a reversal in the Supreme Court. The case cost him $800 and a lot of embarrassment. ("My friends wouldn't talk to me. I got spit on in the court.") By then he was making around $100,000 a year...
...steamrollered through Parliament, which made all clergymen employees of the state (at the same time doubling their salaries), and appointed a cabinet minister to "supervise" religion. Archbishop Josef Beran, interned in his palace since June, was quoted by Western diplomats in Prague as saying that the new laws were "treason to the Christian faith." Beran was grieved that some priests had given public support to the bills, had been "bought for Judas coin...
When Tito's minions in 1946 tried and convicted Roman Catholic Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac on trumped-up treason charges, Stepinac did not confess. Apparently the Kremlin never gave Tito the secret of the "monstrous method." Last week there were rumors that Tito might release Stepinac from prison...