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...away from its present plump occupant. In the April primaries she would be a candidate for the Republican Congressional nomination. Long ambitious to sit in the House, she unhesitatingly seized the McFadden outburst as a springboard for her campaign. Said she: "Every one must resent an unsubstantiated accusation of treason against the President." No idle threat against Congressman McFadden was Mrs. Pinchot's candidacy. Great-granddaughter of the late great Peter Cooper, Manhattan philanthropist and manufacturer of the first U. S. steam locomotive,* daughter of the late Congressman, editor and diplomat, Lloyd Stephens Bryce, auburn-haired Cornelia Pinchot...
...Gangster King Alfonso of Chicago was convicted (of U. S. income tax evasion) four weeks before Bourbon King Alfonso of Spain was formally convicted of "high treason, of heading a military rebellion, of lese majeste against of the sovereignty of the Spanish people" (TIME...
Police refused to believe that this "Boxheim Document," unquestionably genuine, was anything less than a secret Fascist program to overthrow the German State. Acting on this assumption, they asked Federal Attorney General Dr. Werner to prosecute the Hessian Fascists for high treason. Dr. Werner refused to prosecute...
Said he: "I find that the document submitted presupposes the existence of general chaos after the overthrow of the present Government. It is not directed against any government holding office now, and hence affords no ground for a charge of high treason. Rather it sets forth as its premise that legal and constitutional government shall have been overthrown and replaced by the rule of a Commune. This illegal régime would then be replaced by one of the National Socialists who would undertake measures for the restoration of order and security...
Amid furor Leader Adolf Hitler blandly disclaimed responsibility for what his Fascists might be thinking or plotting in Hesse. The attitude of the Attorney General seemed to make it possible for them to plot, with a little ingenuity and camouflage, whatever they please anywhere in Germany without committing treason...