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...debate calmly the merits of Republicans Stimson and Knox in a Democratic Cabinet, the opportunity disappeared in the feverish political atmosphere of Convention Week. Senatorial debate grew bitter, reached a new low in wild charges and venomous insinuations, punctuated with cries of warmongering from Isolationists, and virtual accusations of treason from West Virginia's lame-duck Rush Holt. Both the Naval Affairs Cormmittee and the Committee on Military Affairs decided to hold public hearings, quiz Republicans Knox and Stimson after the Convention recess...
...Evidence of Fifth Column treason...
...treason of Norwegian Nazis like Quisling...
Warwise Canadians, seeking the hard facts of death and disaster, knew one place to find them. In spite of censorship, in spite of anonymous telephone calls accusing him of treason, in the Toronto Star Go-year-old William Rothwell Plewman-platinum-haired and wearer of a tall Herbert Hoover collar-wrote his daily column, The War Reviewed, analyzing World War II as he once analyzed World...
...Commons shot the Act through the required three readings by a series of acclamations without recorded ballots. The House of Lords moved even faster. Exactly 163 minutes after being introduced by Socialist Attlee it was signed by King George VI and promulgated. Same day Parliament supplemented the ancient Treason Acts by passing a streamlined Treachery Bill, and under its drastic provisions Home Secretary Sir John Anderson was soon blitzing fifth columnists...