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...Gromyko sent a peremptory note accusing Finland of harboring more than 300 "war criminals," the last of thousands of Soviet citizens-Ingrians, Estonians, Karelians-who had fled as the Red army pushed back the Wehrmacht in 1944. The Russians specifically demanded the surrender of 65 of the fugitives for "treason." The hard-pressed Finns made some arrests, but it was clear that they would not find most of the fugitives. Gromyko knew this well: Russia had asked for the return of the "traitors" before, when Communist Yrjõ Leino was still Interior Minister. Not even Leino had been able...
Imagined Purgatory. Like his famed mother, Rebecca West (Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, The Meaning of Treason), 35-year-old Anthony has thought earnestly and long about the tincture of guilt that has seeped into the stream of consciousness of modern man and created a field day for the psychoanalysts. Like his father, the late great H. G. Wells,* he has a considerable talent for creating the geography of a make-believe world to suit his fictional purpose...
Wladyslaw Gomulka, once Poland's No. 1 Communist, was dropped from the Party Central Committee in November, is now in prison awaiting trial for treason...
...full force, concentrating on the miserable defendant in the dock. The court asked Traicho Kostov, once Bulgaria's No. 2 Communist, if he wished to make a final statement. Earlier in the trial Kostov had refused to play his assigned role, had denied being guilty of espionage and treason against Bulgaria (TIME, Dec. 19). This was his last chance to redeem himself-and he rejected it. "I must say once again," he began, "that I was never a police agent, never an imperialist...
...lawyer apologized for "defending" him, and called for the maximum penalty. A lawyer, he said, should not try to help a guilty client: "In a Socialist state there is no division of duty between the judge, prosecutor and defense counsel." Next day the court found Kostov guilty of treason and sentenced him to the gallows; his ten codefendants, all of whom had pliantly "confessed" and testified against Kostov, got off with life terms or less...