Word: treasonably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chancellor Konrad Adenauer saved his regime from collapse over the Der Spiegel "treason" scandal last week. But nothing der Alte did or said could muffle the growing noise surrounding his government's role in the affair...
...noisiest, angriest Bundestag session in years greeted Adenauer as he rose to state the government's case. The opposition shouts of "Gestapo!" and ''Neofascist!" only made the old man angrier. "Who is this Herr Augstein, anyway?" cried der Alte. "He makes money out of committing treason and I think that is indecent...
Although the government explained its sudden action on the grounds that Der Spiegel had committed treason in publishing secret information on the performance of German troops in NATO exercises last September, other less honorable motives were immediately apparent...
...Wesgram was required to investigate, and he did. When NATO headquarters in Paris reported that Der Spiegel had indeed divulged secrets, Prosecutor Wesgram drafted arrest orders charging Augstein and other Spiegel staffers with "suspicion of treason," "treasonous falsifications," and "active subornation," or bribery. Then Wesgram spread his dragnet...
...assignment was particularly sticky. On the theory that the Greek economy, long supported by the U.S., is now well able to sustain itself, the U.S. has cut to the nub almost all aid except money for military hardware. To Greeks, this seems almost a form of international treason, as if the U.S. were throwing an ally to the wolves. It was up to Johnson to explain the U.S. position...