Word: treasonably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...move undertaken in the past three years, through which anyone could feel threatened." In referring to the day on which he became Realmleader, Hitler cried: "Every honest German was ashamed at the time of my accession that at that time a certain international race [Jews] could openly propagate treason! I put a stop to that...
...sniveling naturalized U. S. citizen who sobbed his devotion to Germany in court and boohooed his way to acquittal when accused by Nazis of "treason to the Fatherland" was English Teacher Richard Roiderer of Cleveland, Ohio (TIME, April 22). In Munich last week opened the second Nazi trial of this kind, the defendant being Karl Nisselbeck, born in 1901 at Munich. He became a U. S. citizen in 1931, since 1934 has resided in Munich. He was championed by the local U. S. consul who, after journalists had been shooed out and the Nazi court was about to become...
Although the witness finally became inextricably confused in his own testimony and was not asked to give evidence under oath, the Munich Court ended by sentencing naturalized U. S. Citizen Karl Nisselbeck to a jail term of two years for being "an accessory to attempted high treason" to Germany committed by "plotting" with two Germans. One of these two the court acquitted; the other was sentenced to nine months...
...Certainly the procedure should be maintained in cases of treason!" urged the ist Baron Rankeillour, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons in 1924-29. But such objections and proposals last week went unheeded. By a vote of 45-to-24 the few peers in the House upheld Lord Sankey, and the Government was thus enabled to prepare a bill under which an arrested peer will face ordinary trial in Britain's ordinary courts...
...reason why the cartoon did not get its author and publishers arrested for treason was that it had been drawn by patriotic Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, appeared in the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune and its syndicate customers. Another reason was that, at the time, any hope of united action by U. S. conservationists seemed pure fantasy. For years the people who want to look at animals and the people who want to shoot them have fought each other far more vigorously than they have fought for the preservation and replenishment of the nation's wild life resources...