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Before the Red Tribunal in the magnificent Hall of Nobles at Moscow appeared Ivan Okladsky, aged 65, to answer for a crime committed 43 years ago. He was charged with being the world's greatest traitor, a man who had lived on the blood of revolutionary martyrs. Thousands of people flocked to hear the life history of Okladsky...
Last week, Stefan Raditch, leader of the Croatian autonomists (i.e., those advocating total separation from the Serb Kingdom and self-rule as an independent republic) was found under a bed in a house in Zagreb, the address of which had been supplied by a Radical turned traitor. Police dragged Raditch, who is under a ban for being in league with the Bolsheviki, from under the bed by the heels, cast him into prison...
Many stories are told: A minister was dismissed from the house of one of his elders with that elder's wife's anathema ringing in his ears. "You are a thief, sir; you are trying to steal our property-you are a traitor to the Presbyterian Church-you're not a Presbyterian at all; you're not even an honest...
...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...