Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Havana's Camp Liberty, a crowd of rebel soldiers sent up an impromptu cheer-and were seized and hauled off to have their beards shaved for their impertinence. On the witness stand for a seven-hour harangue,* Castro produced not one fact to support the charge of treason. "I do not deny the merits of Huber Matos," said Castro, explaining that his crime was trying to "confound" the revolution by resigning. When Matos tried to interrupt, Prime Minister Castro snarled: "You'll get your turn, Mr. Morality of the Century...
Through it all, Matos spoke with the helpless clarity of a sane man trapped in a lunatic asylum. "I have always fought Communists," he said, "and I had proof that there are Communists in the army's Cultural [indoctrination] Corps. There has been no treason, no desertion nor anything shameful in my conduct." Matos got 20 years in prison-a verdict that Castro called "most generous. I am happy because I feel that revolutionary tribunals should be generous whenever possible...
...their annoyance, Tel Aviv newspapers made wry play with the name of Renault's President Pierre Dreyfus. They incorrectly identified him as the grandson of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who 65 years ago this month was arrested in France on trumped-up charges of treason, in what became (with Emile Zola's help) the classic example of anti-Semitism in the French army of the day. Motormaker Dreyfus said that his stand on the Israeli contract was strictly business. In four years Renault has sold only 3,800 cars in Israel. "It is not possible for us to sell...
...Majesty's consular service, had been caught after being put ashore on a wild stretch of the Irish coast by a German U-boat on Good Friday, 1916, when an Irish rebellion was in the making. What seemed to the British government a clear case of treason was to many an Irishman patriotism...
...years passed, 15 books, including one by Allen Dulles (then in charge of U.S. espionage against Germany), were written to show that to an unsuspected extent, the plot was a sincere and patriotic attempt to save the honor of a nation. Postwar German courts absolved the plotters of treason, and each July 20, German newspapers have published eulogies of the conspirators. But the old argument about unquestioning loyalty in wartime lived on among diehard anti-July 20 officers, while the rest of the country preferred to forget the incident along with everything else connected with the last years of Hitler...