Word: traitorously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...costs of the trial. Not content with sentencing the defendant, he proceeded to sentence the plaintiff by declaring that whether or no Herr Ebert joined the strikers to end the strike was immaterial, that he was technically guilty of treason -the President of the German Republic was a traitor. The Judge had killed two birds with the proverbial stone...
...Presidential mansion and expressed to the President their unbounded faith in him and their gratitude for his great patriotism. But to the man-in-the-street, the verdict was summed up: "President Ebert committed treason against Germany, but you must go to jail for calling him a traitor." Indeed, if the President were guilty of treason, it would seem that Editor Rothardt ought not to have been sentenced; conversely, it goes by implication that the sentence against Rothardt exculpates the President...
...defection of General Feng (TIME, Nov. 3) left Super-Tuchun Wu in a virtually untenable position. Harrassed from the North by the advancing troops of Super-Tuchun Chang, he conducted a retreat on Peking with the object of ridding the world of "Traitor" Feng. The odds were too heavy. Several times, military observers declared, Chang could have annihilated the Wu army, but he always left a loophole for its retreat by way of the sea. Finally, Wu requested an armistice from General Feng. The war stopped. Peace negotiations proceeded. Chang was reported retiring to Mukden, his capital, but this seemed...
Situation. The situation as it was reported: Super-Tuchun Chang an nounced that the war was over. Super-Tuchun Wu continued the war against Chang, but detached a large part of his army which marched against Peking to rid the world of "traitor Feng." Feng, in control of Peking, said that he had acted only to stop a fratricidal war and that Wu had been dismissed because of incompetence, gross civil and military misuse of his powers. He declared that he would continue the war against Chang if the latter did not heed the President's order to cease hostilities...
...unpolitic to dub as traitor those earnest men and women who are looking for a better way to settle disputes than by war. They represent constructive effort, as opposed to the destructiveness of the militarists, and they have the sympathy, if not the active support of most of the country. The power and impressiveness of the military is passing, and nothing makes this more obvious than the bombastic utterances of its proponents...