Word: treasonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time, the Bulgarian press began to publish the "confessions" of the 15 Protestant leaders indicted for treason. Methodist Yanko Ivanov was said to have admitted giving the U.S. information "on Russian troop movements in Bulgaria." Congregationalist Vassil Ziapkov was quoted: "We betrayed our Motherland, we revealed her secrets before enemies...
Poet Ezra Pound, 63, rheumy-eyed expatriate follower of Mussolini and fascism, now living out his days in a Washington, D.C. insane asylum (if he ever recovers, he will be tried for treason), won the Bollingen Prize of $1,000 for The Pisan Cantos (TIME, Oct. 25), "the highest achievement of American poetry" in 1948. The election committee, which includes Conrad Alken, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell and Katherine Anne Porter, "aware that objections may be made," explained their choice: "To permit other considerations than that of poetic achievement to sway the decision, would destroy the significance...
Actually, the 15 have been in prison since last December. The government kept mum until everything had been properly arranged. Then the Deputy Foreign Minister Topencharov announced that all of the accused had "fully confessed" to the old familiar charges: treason, black-marketeer-ing and espionage...
...This Be Treason . . . "Therefore, I beg you, my beloved people, let us not confuse prudence with lack of vision ... as we watch nation after nation fall victim to Communism, for prudence is often but an excuse for silence, procrastination and compromise. Even today, as we read newspaper releases from the Communist-controlled press of Budapest . . . about a cardinal priest whom, so little time ago, we took unto our own hearts and homes-millions of Americans refuse to recognize that we ourselves are faced with these same merciless dangers . . . The Communists believe the American public is ... willing to be drugged into...
...When the cardinal confessed to treason against the government in Hungary, he but professed his loyalty to his country. If this be treason, to deny allegiance to an atheistic Communist government-then thank God Cardinal Mindszenty confessed to treason, as would I, if this free land of America were ever conquered...