Word: treasonably
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...record, which was available to the Truman Administration in December 1945 and thereafter, should have been sufficient to convince anyone that White was a hazard to our Government. The question which had to be decided at that time was not whether White could have been convicted of treason. There was ample evidence that he was not loyal to the interests of our country. That was enough...
Nobody would accuse Roosevelt or Truman of disloyalty. What they were accused of was creating and maintaining a political climate in which treason flourished...
...President has ever been subpoenaed before. Two court subpoenas were issued to President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 by Chief Justice John Marshall in the treason proceedings against Aaron Burr. Jefferson refused on both the grounds that no court could force him to "abandon superior duties," and because of "the necessary right of the President to decide . . . what papers . . . the public interests permit to be communicated." At least 16 Presidents, among them Washington, Coolidge and Hoover, have declined to supply Congress with certain requested information...
...Communist countries." Harry Truman concluded, "it is the practice when a new government comes to power to accuse the outgoing officials of treason, to frame public trials for them, and to degrade and prosecute the key officials of the previous government. That is the way of the Communists, whose only god is power ... It is not the way Americans behave...
...Roosevelt's prose has the unique faculty of leaving the mind stumbling about in a forest of wavering, autumn-tinted meanings ... So the discovery of Hiss's "alleged" treason was less damaging to U.S. prestige than Senator McCarthy's investigations? . . . Or does the word "alleged" indicate that Mrs. Roosevelt does not believe that Hiss was a traitor? . . . Meanwhile, she remains unchallenged mistress of the dangling sequitur...