Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union's chief expert on Near & Far East affairs, Leo Karakhan, and several Soviet diplomats have fled abroad to denounce Communism & Stalin. Moscow papers had just accused of "wrecking" Nikolai Krylenko, famed Soviet Prosecutor at the earlier purge trials, thus grooming him to be made the next star traitor. The press also announced the execution after star chamber trials last week of the Metropolitan of Gorki and an unspecified "number of other clergymen." Thus, last week the invitation from Litvinoff had every element of drama...
...Soviet newspapers' omission last week to explain the sensational absence from the Red Army celebration of three prominent Red Generals, one of them Marshal Alexander Yegorov who in May 1937 became First Vice-Commissar of Defense in succession to famed Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky who was executed as a "traitor" (TIME, June 21). The inference was that Yegorov and friends had "disappeared," would soon be liquidated like Admirals Orlov and Sivkov...
...haired Nazi Prosecutor Thissen, the prisoner-pastor at once shouted accusingly: "Why am 7 here under the accusation of a traitor? I have done nothing to justify such a charge...
...twelve thick volumes of notes and defense arguments he had prepared. On the first two days 42 witnesses were called, and reputedly in Berlin there are almost an indefinite number of pious Germans, wealthy folk or members of the fighting services, ready to testify that Martin Niemoller is no traitor but a hero of the Fatherland and a martyr of the Church. If he wins acquittal it will be by the 'same indomitable, single-handed fighting methods that caused the German Supreme Court to acquit the famed Bulgarian Communist Georgi Dimitroff of complicity in the Reichstag fire (TIME, March...
...Green trial is scheduled for this week but last week Mr. Lewis was already at work on the jury. To the assembled miners he sighed: "I know of but one member of the United Mine Workers of America who has fulfilled the function of a traitor to this great movement of ours. He is a poor little pusillanimous man who sees ghosts at night and pays his own penalty for his perfidy...