Word: absentia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed by Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who had come to address a U. S. audience for the first time. Columbia's Anglophile Nicholas Murray Butler beamed on his visitors, bestowed honorary degrees on four of the Britons (and one on M. Herriot In absentia...
...native country. He was made so by a decree of Generalissimo Francisco Franco himself. To the 52-year-old Alfonso, now living in Italy, were restored (so far as Insurgent Spain could do so) the rights he lost after he fled the country in 1931 and was "tried" in absentia before the Republic's Parliament. The Republic found him guilty of high treason, confiscated his properties, ordered his immediate arrest should he ever be caught in Spain again...
...trial in absentia at Barcelona of famed Andrés Nin (secretary to Leon Trotsky in Russia during the Revolution) and seven members of his Spanish P. O. U. M. Party ended almost unnoticed this week by the world press...
...that even a major air raid, even, the shattering concussion of bombs which exploded a few hundred yards from the courtroom did not distract the judges, prisoners or spectators. In an atmosphere electric with hate and Spanish passion, Andrés Nin was at last put on trial in absentia. Andrés Nin's small, blonde Russian wife or widow had a ringside spectator's seat...
...baiting Dictator Metaxas, unable to lay his hands on the rebels, last week did the next best thing. He court-martialed the 42 leaders in absentia. Sentences: death for four, including former Minister of National Economy Aristomenis Mitsotakis, nephew of Greece's late Republican firebrand Eleutherios Venizelos; life imprisonment for three; one to 25 years' imprisonment for 35 others. As a special inducement the condemned men were informed that if they gave themselves up in a month they would have the right to appeal their sentences...