Word: treasonably
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...couple of officious police officers to make lurid charges against Governor Frank Murphy.'' Mr. Roosevelt then complimented the Governor for postponing forcible action while negotiations to end the sit-down strikes without bloodshed were in progress, added: "For that act, a few petty politicians accuse him of treason: for that act, every peace-loving American should praise...
...verdict this week was described in Barcelona dispatches as "finally liquidating the Trotskyists," although during the trial Poum defendants stressed that, while they "admired Trotsky," they regarded his Fourth International as too academic and favored a fighting Fifth International. Of the seven defendants, all charged with high treason and a variety of other political crimes, two were freed and five sentenced to from eleven to 15 years' imprisonment...
...Leon Trotsky was the focus of the Moscow trial after which 16 Trotskyists were executed (TIME, Aug. 31, 1936). In the prisoners' box at Barcelona sat seven Ninists. The seven and Nin were charged, as members of his P.O.U.M., or Workers Party for Marxist Unification, with high treason, espionage and "ominous activities." As an example of these the long indictment charged: "They provoked a real revolution in Catalonia [in May 1937], fought against the police and even managed to make an army division in which they had been carrying on their criminal work abandon the front." What had happened...
...fact that this treason trial, held with full constitutional procedure, was open to the public-many traitors in the civil war's early days having been dispatched to their graves by star-chamber proceedings-was stressed by Barcelona correspondents as significant. The Leftist Government hoped that this trial would convince influential British opinion that it is not Red. Therefore, the most important charge, all correspondents agreed, was not any of the capital charges of treason for which the seven may be shot if found guilty. It was the charge that the defendants "did all they could to give...
...Peace cannot be achieved by trying to fix fronts or trace artificial frontiers between Rebel and Loyal zones. That never! If any Spaniard even admitted that possibility he would be committing the crime of high treason...