Word: treasonable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London near week's end, Britain's House of Commons passed judgment on the Paris conference. Twice during the day's debate, shouts of "Treason!" were hurled at Prime Minister Harold Macmillan from the Visitors' Gallery. Snapped Aneurin Bevan, Labor's left-leaning spokesman on foreign affairs: "We are profoundly depressed when representative after representative of the British government . . . has no advice to give to the nation except to build up one more tier of ridiculous armaments on the useless pile we have created." The government won the vote, 289 to 251. But its majority...
...fought Stalinists in his Cabinet trying to prevent the trial. He did not want to risk stirring fresh hostility to his despised regime, was also embarrassed because he himself had served in Nagy's revolutionary government. But Boss Khrushchev ruled in favor of a show trial. The charge: treason. Nagy, befuddled and brainwashed after long internment at Sinaia, Rumania, has been transferred to Budapest's Fo Utca prison, is reportedly adjudged ready to "confess...
...derisive manner of the best French writing, Aron indicts the French intelligentsia for committing treason against the West, and he does much to elucidate a mystery that bedevils the friends of France: Why, in the name of (and despite) their own traditions of freedom, are France's most vocal philosophers artists and scientists declared Soviet partisans or, at least, neutralists...
...public notice, other Arab nations still refuse to change their line that the only way to solve the refugee problem is to force Israel to restore their homes. To accuse an Arab ruler of talking peace and compromise with Israel is still read by Arabs as a charge of treason to the refugees, and Nasser has used this charge freely. (Last week, apparently to allay any such suspicion of softness to Israel, Jordan stirred up a fresh series of border incidents backed by a volley of accusations and recriminations.) But recently, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon have shown private apprehension...
...Poet Noyes published an emotional book reversing his earlier stand). It may have been a kind of Irish Faust who disappeared through the trap on the gallows of Pentonville Prison. Yet objective readers of Author MacColl's biography must agree that he was truly and justly hanged for treason. For the rest of the long line of Irish martyrs, Roger Casement must make unfortunate if intriguing company...