Word: treasonably
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...world's headlines called it a story of treason; it was perhaps just as much a matter of despair. Nationalist Generals Cheng Chien and Chen Ming-jen had been close all their lives. Together they had risen to positions of leadership and trust in the Nationalist government. They shared a common dislike of Chiang Kaishek...
...more than 16,000 enemy aliens. So successful was the home-front campaign against saboteurs that not one case of enemy-directed sabotage was discovered throughout the war; this time there were no Black Tom explosions. Ranting Douglas Chandler, the "Paul Revere" of Radio Berlin, tried and convicted of treason, bitterly complained that his confession had been extracted by an FBI agent with "malign, hypnotic power...
Chamber 13. Early in 1946, a firing squad shot grim, contemptuous Jean Luchaire for treason. Several months later, Corinne, racked by dissipation and tuberculosis, was condemned to ten years' "national indignity." Last week in Paris, Otto Abetz was on trial for crimes he committed during the German occupation: com plicity in maltreatment of Jews and French officers, looting French art treasures...
...excommunication order forced Czech Communists to hurl accusations of treason faster than they intended. Minister of Justice Alexej Cepicka blared that Beran had maintained "treacherous connections with foreign enemies" and plotted "treacherous anti-state riots." "Let no one doubt," the minister went on, "that today anyone who . . . tries in any way to carry out the Vatican's orders commits treason against the vital principles of his own state and people." Cepicka lists himself officially as a Catholic. He is a son-in-law of Communist Boss Klement Gottwald...
...Vatican called the Czech threat of prosecution for treason "laughable nonsense." A Vatican spokesman asserted: "Excommunication has no need of a material executor who can be traced and punished. Excommunication acts upon the guilty in the secret of the conscience." On the other hand, Eastern Catholics who were terrorized into lip service to Communism would not incur the penalties of the papal edict. Priests, he added, were expected to do their duty regardless of personal consequences...