Word: treasonably
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...seemed almost as though the British Government were copying the famed Soviet propaganda trials of Moscow. Having attracted the maximum attention to the young Highlander by locking him up in a museum, the Government held the great treason trial not in a room in the War Office but out in the middle of a drill hall. Except when special witnesses were being examined, the Press was admitted; there were plenty of seats for the public. President of the court was Major General Winston Dugan, a former aide-de-camp of King George. On either side of him sat three other...
...former Military Academy to keep back a mob which roars, "Hail Ludendorff! Hail Hitler!" Stiffly in full uniform & medals, Prisoner Ludendorff poses with Prisoner Hitler who wears his raincoat with an air of defiance. Together ex-General Ludendorff and ex-Corporal Hitler, tried on charges of high treason for having led together the .famed Munich Beer Hall putsch which failed, cost 18 lives. Prisoner Hitler, as leader of the party of seven men which by this time has become the National Socialist (Nazi) Party of 30,000, shouts at his judges: "I know your sentence! But that high court above...
...reported the entire conversation to the foreign Press and to Chancellor Dollfuss who suspended Railway Director Seefehlner with considerable embarrassment, promised Britain and France that the rifles, cross his heart, will really be sent back to Italy. Viennese newspapers scare-headed that ousted Director Seefehlner faces trial for high treason...
...such taboo. Many a British and U. S. advertiser broadcasts from trans-Channel stations to the British audience (5,000,000 licensed sets). Of all British newspapers only the sporting London Sunday Referee prints the trans-Channel programs. Lately the Referee committed what, to its contemporaries, was treason. It sponsored a series of broadcasts from Paris. Last week the Newspaper Proprietors Association cast out the Referee. The Referee threatened "sensational consequences...
Governor von Kahr did join Hitler & Ludendorff ("at the point of a pistol," he afterwards testified). Enough other beer-soused Bavarians joined to make it necessary for a Reichswehr regiment to shoot several people. When Ludendorff & Hitler were tried for high treason the General was acquitted, the upstart given a light prison sentence from which he was released in a few months ("as insane," say enemies...