Word: treasons
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...Hero of Verdun, Marshal of France and Chief of State of Vichyfrance, was home again. It was his 89th birthday. With German permission, through the Swiss Government, the Marshal had offered to surrender himself to the French Government of General Charles de Gaulle and to stand trial for high treason. The offer had been accepted...
...Nazi radio took full credit for the murders. It boasted that underground courts had condemned the collaborating officials to death for treason, that underground killers-"Werewolves"-had carried out the sentence...
...large, they were the fanatical, troublemaking variety of Nisei segregated at Tule Lake, Calif., for disloyalty. Until a year ago change of allegiance was so difficult to achieve that a Nisei had to commit treason or desert from the armed forces to make it. Now, thanks to a recent act of Congress, anybody can renounce his U.S. citizenship if the U.S. Attorney General finds it is not contrary to the national defense...
Then the prosecutor briefly "summed up the case against Maurras. In L'Action Française he had denounced patriots by name, caused some to be arrested and shot. The judge and four lay consultants deliberated for 90 minutes. Their verdict: Maurras was guilty of treason. His sentence: life imprisonment at hard labor...
...year later Tukhachevsky was arrested on a questionable charge of treason and shot. But not long before his death, Tukhachevsky had written a treatise on mechanization for the Red Army. In it he praised "the brilliant French military writer, De Gaulle." Now his friend De Gaulle, head of the French Government, was the honored guest of the biggest Soviet marshal...