Word: treasonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...executive authority. But its inclusive composition may give it real strength. One indication of the Assembly's potentialities came last week from the National Committee: seeking to remove its remaining Vichy taint, the Committee ordered the arrest of former Vichy Air Minister General Jean-Marie Bergeret, charged with treason. Other Vichyites who, with turned coats, had fled to Africa after the Allied landings, were also on the Committee's black list...
...horde of Goths and Huns stood before the city that St. Jerome called the "clearest light of the universe." Once Rome's terror-shaken citizens had bought off the barbarian with ransom of gold, silver, silk, skins, and 3,000 Ib. of pepper. Now, by stealth or treason, Alaric's men burst the Salarian Gate. For three days and nights they pillaged palaces and temples, dragged Romans into slavery. Moved perhaps by awe, they spared the precious vessels which "belonged to St. Peter," respected the sanctuary of Christian churches, did not fire Rome's noble buildings...
...here or there there is a cowardly individual among us who might put a comfortable life above the honor and the future of our people, and who might through treason and infidelity . . . stab the fighting front in the back, we are determined . . . to cut off his head...
Cried the Tokyo radio: Marshal Pietro Badoglio committed "a glowing act of treason against the tripartite pact," but Japan and Germany were prepared for just such an incident. And so, said an official government statement, Japan "has taken measures considered necessary after consideration of all eventualities." The "measures": all Italian interests in the Far East, specifically...
...Russia since the Bolshevik revolution. Following his enthronement, the Metropolitan blessed the Soviet Government (whose members, like all Communists, are atheists), and invoked the dire penalty of excommunication on Orthodox priests and laity anywhere in the world who by cooperating with the Nazis have been guilty of "Judas treason." In London, meanwhile, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was "most happy" over the renewed relations between the Church of England and the Russian Church, hoped the Russians would return the visit soon...