Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handily to the great controversies of history, among which the Dreyfus case ranks high. British Historian Guy Chapman would like to change the conventional way of being wrong about the case, not by suggesting that the French artillery captain was guilty after all, but that those who shaped the treason charges against him were not so guilty as half a century of pro-Dreyfus literature makes them out to be. Among Author Chapman's more debatable points: "AntiSemitism played little, perhaps no part in the arrest of the unhappy victim or in his trial...
...role of the investigating colonel who insists on finding the real root of the major's treason, Arthur Kennedy is magnificent. The defendant's refusal to testify obviously disturbs him, yet he maintains a casual air throughout, with the result that he seems not only human, but typically Army. This effect arises naturally from the playwrights' lines, which have neither the sparkle of the drawing-room nor the hysteria of the melodrama, but flow along calmly, with occasional light touches in a vein that could be found in any Army office. Kennedy, however, makes these lines extremely effective by never...
...Film; Columbia). "Try to remember that any confession I may be said to make will be a lie, or the result of human weakness." With these last words to his spiritual principality, the cardinal (Alec Guinness) submits to arrest by the secret police. He is charged with treason and remanded for interrogation to a brilliant political fanatic, a doctor (Jack Hawkins) with whom he had worked in the anti-Nazi resistance during World...
...Bonn (where there is a treason charge standing against him), Otto John's story of drugged kidnaping and clever fencing with the MVD interrogators was deemed altogether too romantic. The West, having had time to take stock of his defection, had found the loss to Western intelligence less than expected. Strictly concerned with operations inside West Germany, he had had few intelligence secrets to tell the Russians. His propaganda value exhausted, the Communists had given him less and less to do, plainly showing that they also distrusted traitors...
Confronted, Zolgadr at last confessed that he had received orders from Fadayan Islam to kill Ala "because he was treading in the path of treason...