Word: treasonably
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...ruthless realpolitik of Augustus' reign, the tyrannies of Tiberius', the craziness of Caligula's. A Roman of the old school, nostalgic for the Republic, he saw that Rome was headed in a showier direction. His stoicism kept him fairly equable through bankruptcy, an accusation of treason, a near-drowning, when he was thrown into the River Rhone by Caligula's orders. In the sabbatanic orgies at the palace Claudius played well his appointed role of buffoon, bided his time. But when a conspiracy finally rid Rome of Caligula, only a threat of death from the Palace...
...Wall, Last week a mammoth trial of in Communists on charges of "preparing to commit high treason,'' opened at Breslau. Soviet Russia's mounting resentment against Nazi abuse of Communists and Communism was reflected to a certain extent in the total of Russian imports from Germany in the first quarter of 1934: 21,000,000 marks as against 181,000,000 marks for the same period...
...they had real news to read in their papers. Dissatisfied with the results of the famed Reichstag Fire trial in which all but one of the five defendants were acquitted, the Nazi government announced the establishment of a new "People's Court" to take all cases of high treason from the penal division of the Supreme Court...
...similarly indebted to Japan. No one is so foolish as to think that the war between Bolivia and Paraguay to being fought with South American armaments. It is difficult to see why the practice of selling munitions to countries hostile to one's own is act the highest treason, nor why it is not a crime against mankind to make war possible by supplying instruments to those countries unable to produce them of themselves...
...Bibelforscher (Earnest Bible Searchers). Their crime was that they take orders only from God, believe that all man-made laws and governments are the work of Satan. In this they include the Nazi State. Police told them months ago to disband. They did not. They were arrested. But their treason was so huge and vague that even Nazi law could not touch them and they were acquitted...