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...impossible that the Ruler of the Papal State should ever declare war upon us. The worst harm that George Marquis MacDonald of 149 Broadway can probably do by carrying his new loyalty to its logical conclusion is not apt to involve the crime of High Treason. But what of the long roll called in your last issue of men and women who have just received decorations from Greece. Italy, Spain and France...
...slave-block. Meanwhile, the states should pass concurrent legislation as provided for in the Eighteenth Amendment, and then when the American people are thoroughly convinced that laws will be enforced and that our Constitution will be respected and that open deflance of the Constitution is a form of treason, it will then be time to modify the provisions of the Volstead Act and to declare that only beverages that are in fact intoxicating shall be forbidden...
...Italy there is no opposition; under a free regime there can be opposition, while under a dictatorship only discontent. The Fascist party is the only lawful political organization, and opposition is treason. The reasons for discontent are two-told First, there has been an economic crisis in Italy for the last four years. Second, the people are getting tired of Mussolini...
...limb. These smuggled words are the very avatar of Spanish honor. They are the stenographic minutes of the successful but mercilessly suppressed plea which Don José Sanchez Guerra, four times Prime Minister of Spain, made to a court martial in Valencia, before whom he stood accused of High Treason (TIME, Dec. 9). The 70-year-old rebel is living quietly in Madrid today with his daughters, and when he goes walking is sometimes cheered by irrepressible students of the University of Madrid who shout, "Long live Sanchez Guerra! Death to the Dictator! Down with the King...
Even with 500 British special constables skulking outside, the 80,000 Nationalists (physically weak and mentally timid though they are) felt safe behind their barricade. They had met with the announced purpose of committing High Treason en masse, assembled as did 65 American colonists in 1776 to defy a British sovereign with a Declaration of Independence. Only 3,000 of them were official delegates but all 80,000 shrilled applause as Pandit Nehru cried: "We are now in open conspiracy to free India...