Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republic of Honduras is enjoying relative calm, and the Provisional Government has the situation, created by the treason of Gen. Gregorio Ferrera under full control. . . . The commander of the Government troops has been ordered to pursue Ferrera, who has gone into hiding in the mountains. The War Tribunal has been instructed to institute proceedings against him, as he is charged with treason against his country...
...pass a law, and a treaty strikes no more at the vitals of Government than a law. I don't know of any other civilized Government that requires more than a majority, and I don't see why this country should require it. If this be treason, make the most...
Avoiding the "mistake" which the Greek Government made in executing the Ministers alleged to be responsible for the Greek defeat at the hands of the Turks, the Bulgarian Parliament (Sobranje) voted amnesty to ex-Premier Vaseil Radoslavoff and his Cabinet who were charged with treason in having brought Bulgaria into the War on the side of the Central Powers...
Executions of heretics cannot properly be understood unless it is remembered that high treason, in those days, was heresy. That high treason was heresy was a ruling of the Roman Catholic Church which was taken over by the Anglican Church when it separated from Rome. This same doctrine is still technically the law of the Roman Church, and received explosion as late as 1864, when Pope Pius IX (Pio Nono) issued his tremendous Syllabus of Errors...
...Treason! Consider yourself under arrest...