Word: treasonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MEANING OF TREASON (307 pp.)-Rebecca West-Viking...
...fifth column of sympathizers within, the world pounced on the phrase with the eagerness of a man who has been groping for an important word. The world might better have been stunned as by a tocsin of calamity. For what Mola had done was to indicate the dimension of treason in our time...
...Shall Speak for Me?" The elections which Nationalist China held, like the Chinese military situation, left much to be desired. All men & women 21 and over, literate or illiterate, were eligible to vote, provided they had never been convicted of treason, political corruption or opium smoking. But since the election was the first of its kind in Chinese history, and since no polls were open in Communist areas, the turnout was rather small. Finally, since more than 95% of the Chinese people can neither read nor write, many a voter had to accept help in marking his ballot from friendly...
...insisted, "are a sterile business. When the artist permits the mood of the spectator to take full control he abdicates his function. But my abstractions are projections of reality." Among the more obvious "projections": a Mutilated House which looked like a cement block oozing blood, and The Face of Treason, a successfully nauseating tapioca of eyes in space...
Said Tran Nocg Danh, Viet Nam's unrecognized envoy to Paris: "If he negotiates with the French without the consent of his Government, he will be tried for treason...