Word: treasons
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...give him. On the Rome radio, he used it to heap contumely on the Jews, to lecture and vilify his native land. After the U.S. entered the war, he kept it up. On July 26, 1943, he became one of the few U.S. citizens ever to be indicted for treason...
...Calcutta a column of students paraded in protest against the treason trials of Indian National Army men. Organized under Japanese supervision by the late
Unrest spread to Bombay, where students clashed with police. In Delhi, other students marched in protest before historic Mogul Red Fort, the ancient citadel where I.N.A. officers were standing trial for high treason against...
Ezra Pound, in Washington awaiting trial for treason (pro-Axis broadcasts from Rome), was freshly reindicted for 19 overt acts, and became the center of a literary flurry in Manhattan. Pulitzer Prizewinner Conrad Aiken considered him "less traitor than fool", E. E. Cummings whipped up a paraphrasing of "To thine own self be true. . . ." ; Louis Untermeyer favored life imprisonment among the works of Eddie Guest. Random House hastily dropped Pound from a forthcoming poetry anthology...
...nearby cell of the Tower languished another treason suspect-handsome, youthful Lord Robert Dudley, whose father, the Duke of Northumberland, had just been beheaded. As children, Lord Robert and the Lady Elizabeth had played together; they had studied Latin under the same tutor. In the Tower they met again. Soon it was rumored that dashing Prisoner Dudley had so bewitched Prisoner Elizabeth that she had fallen hopelessly in love with him. The rumor seemed to be confirmed nearly five years later, when Elizabeth rode in state to her coronation, and Robert Dudley, her newly created Master of the Horse, proudly...