Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sinews of war (see below), His Majesty's Government are less favorably disposed than ever toward the Spanish Leftists, and this week official London was considering whether it may be "obliged by circumstances" to grant the Rightists diplomatic recognition. 2) The panic in Soviet Russia over wholesale "treason" and the shaky position of the French franc (see p. 17) were major indirect factors working against the Spanish Leftists. 3) Mr. Chamberlain's speech gave the impression that he thought Mussolini & Hitler were right, from their points of view, in thinking that now was the time, before Britain...
Russia's current tidal wave of treason charges, summary arrests and sudden death to even big Bolsheviks (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.), surged up last week for the first time high enough to overwhelm even a president of a constituent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...policy against the Soviet Union. They . . . permitted wrecking acts intended to undermine the power of the Red Army and to prepare for . . . the defeat of the Red Army in event of an attack against it. ... The special court session found all eight guilty of violating their military oath, of treason to the Red Army and of treason to the motherland and decided to deprive them of all military ranks and to sentence all of them to the highest measure of criminal punishment...
...certain capitalistic power." Among those shot was Budu Mdivani, once reported to be a brother of the Marrying Mdivanis (score: Pola Negri, Mary McCormic, Louise Astor van Alen, Barbara Hutton) but disowned as such by curly-haired Prince David Mdivani (Mae Murray). During last January's treason trial Budu Mdivani's name was mentioned in connection with a conspiracy to overthrow Communism by helping Germany and Japan defeat Russia...
...North Caucasus region, preparations were afoot last week for yet another treason trial of railway chiefs and others, charged with causing 17 train wrecks in January alone. Many of the accused have already confessed, including one Burstein, head of the Mineralnye Vody traffic department. Pravda, official news-organ of the Communist Party, urged the Soviet to make its enemies "pay with gallons of blood for every drop of workers' blood they shed...