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...sent to the Philippines. Nothing in John Provoo's whole odd story was stranger than the tortuous trail which led him from a Japanese prison camp on Corregidor to a federal courtroom in New York's Foley Square, where he sat on trial last week for treason during wartime (maximum penalty: death...
...magazines and newspapers come into the U.S. by bulk mail, the customs men have been destroying some of them on the spot. Some of those passed by customs have been held up, or destroyed, by the Post Office under the law that bans mailing of publications that advocate "treason, insurrection, or forcible resistance to the laws of the U.S." Acting Postal Solicitor Louis Doyle said that by law his department is responsible for deciding what to ban. Customs officials reported 2% or 3% of the 10,000 to 15,000 shipped to the Port of New York from the Soviet...
...High Treason, the J. Arthur Rank people examine the problem of Communist sabotage in England and conclude that as long as Scotland Yard employs cool, resourceful investigators there is no cause for alarm. It is a solid suspense job which mounts to a fine climax, then closes with a wonderful burst of thin-lipped realism...
...Senator said: "I ask the American people, especially good, loyal Democrats, when you go to the polls remember Stevenson said, 'Judge me by the advisers whom I select' and then selected a too adviser who says, 'If you know about communism, if you know about treason, don't tell...
Somehow, Washington kept patience and hope. His capacity for self-control was enormous: when the news of Benedict Arnold's treason reached him, he sent his aide, Colonel Alexander Hamilton, 24, riding off to intercept the traitor, calmly ate dinner, did his best to comfort Arnold's hysterical wife, and within three hours revamped the defenses of Arnold's exposed post-the Hudson narrows at West Point -so that the British could not storm it. When mutinies broke out among Pennsylvania and New Jersey troops in 1781, Washington suppressed them sternly, not because he was harsh...