Word: treasonably
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Demagog Hitler and General Erich von Ludendorff gathered the nucleus of the present German Fascist party, attempted a revolution in 1923 which they hoped would make them Germany's dictators but which unhappily only brought them to trial for treason. Ludendorff was released, retired to obscurity and the private worship of Norse war gods (TIME, June 16). Hitler, sentenced to five years of military imprisonment, was released at the end of eight months, so completely destitue of a following did he seem...
...clerk and a mendicant monk were taken from a train at Prague last week, charged with high treason against the Republic of Czechoslovakia. Old world diplomats studying the case grinned in their beards, figuratively doffed their cocked hats to dowdy, indomitable Zita of Bourbon-Parme, ex-Empress of Austria-Hungary. In the baggage of the clerk and the mendicant monk (Felix Christian and Father Charles Otto by name) were some typical royalist pamphlets. More interesting were bundles and bundles of membership blanks for a League of Prayer the object of which is the formal beatification of the ex-Habsburg Emperor...
Membership in the Communist Party renders a Pole liable to the penalty of Death because court decisions have established a legal presumption in Poland that anyone who is a Communist is ipso facto attempting to overthrow the Government and is therefor guilty of treason...
Germans who committed political crimes or acts of treason between Nov. 9, 1918 and Dec. 1, 1924 rejoiced exceedingly last week. The six-year period thus delimited was the era of attempted putsches to restore the Hohenzollerns, the period when "Separatists" in the Rhineland agitated to set up a Rhineland Republic. Last week the German Reichstag with a stately gesture wiped this huge, dirty slate clean, declared a general amnesty for the benefit of persons so fortunate as to have committed their political crimes or treasons between the dates specified...
...Queen Marie (where Carol, before he left Rumania four-and-a-half years ago, once surprised the Prince and boxed his ears) was ripped out. Search of the Stirbey palace last week revealed an archive of state secrets and codes sufficient to hang at least two persons for High Treason. But King Carol II wisely allowed his mother's one-time "court favorite" to leave Rumania for "voluntary exile...