Word: treasonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November, 30-year-old Sydney Leibbrandt and six of his Rebels went before the Transvaal Division of the South African Supreme Court charged with high treason. For a month Leibbrandt remained calm, arrogant, defiant. Then, last week, into the courtroom strode a bemedaled Nazi parachutist captured in the recent Middle East fighting. Believing his testimony would get his fellow Nazi "honorable" treatment as a prisoner of war, the soldier positively identified Leibbrandt, coolly told how they had trained together as parachutists in Germany...
With these trumps the Swiss last week continued confidently but soberly to do what no other small nation in Europe could do: run Switzerland as the Swiss thought it should be run. Seven soldiers of the Swiss Army were sentenced to death for treason -first death sentences for military espionage in Swiss history-despite dire warnings from the Swiss Nazi Die Front that "first shots can be dangerous." In Zurich, filmgoers stood and applauded Mrs. Miniver, which critics hailed as "a touching document of democratic courage." Swiss censorship banned Goebbels' weekly Das Reich because it printed a distasteful caricature...
...Adolf Hitler. Instead they attacked the Vichy regime, praised General Charles de Gaulle. Delicate, scholarly, 70-year-old onetime Premier Léon Blum raised his grey head proudly and accused his accusers of rank mockery. Cried onetime Premier Edouard Daladier: "We shall make it clear where treason lurked and by whom France was betrayed...
CHICAGO--Three German-American men were sentenced today to death on chargea of aiding a Nazi saboteur who already has been executed and the wives of the three were sentenced to 25 years in prison for the crime of treason which the court described as "the most iniquitous offense in the unholy list of crimes...
...small, imitation-marble pillared Federal courtroom in Chicago last week, six closely guarded naturalized U.S. citizens, German-born, went on trial for treason. By week's end the jury (nine housewives, three men) and a handful of spectators had heard the first grim chapters of a story that might well have come from the mind of a dime novelist...