Word: treasonably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gangster King Alfonso of Chicago was convicted (of U. S. income tax evasion) four weeks before Bourbon King Alfonso of Spain was formally convicted of "high treason, of heading a military rebellion, of lese majeste against of the sovereignty of the Spanish people" (TIME...
Police refused to believe that this "Boxheim Document," unquestionably genuine, was anything less than a secret Fascist program to overthrow the German State. Acting on this assumption, they asked Federal Attorney General Dr. Werner to prosecute the Hessian Fascists for high treason. Dr. Werner refused to prosecute...
Defense seemed hopeless. "Alfonso de Bourbon y Habsburg Lorraine is guilty of high treason," a Parliamentary Committee had already reported. "He is guilty of heading a military rebellion [the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship]. . . . He is guilty of lese majeste against the sovereignty of the Spanish people...
Next the Assembly will tackle charges of high treason against fugitive King Alfonso XIII (he never abdicated) which were drafted last week by the Government Responsibility Commission. "If Alfonso does not return from France to face these charges," said Socialist Commissioner Jeronimo Bujeda, "we are prepared to declare him a fugitive from Justice. This Commission demands real prosecution and no farces...
...Dreyfus Case (British International) relates, with few deviations from fact, the events which followed France's conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus for treason in 1894. The merits of the picture are, as they should be. more dramatic than didactic. It introduces with too much profusion and too little clarity the documents which lead to the conviction of Dreyfus but it is explicit in dealing with later developments of the case: the imprisonment of Dreyfus on Devil's Island; the efforts of Emile Zola and others to establish his innocence; the trial of the real traitor, Major Esterhazy...