Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German spy. Major de Clam's theory was that Dreyfus would recoil in terror at the familiar facts and figures, thus revealing himself as the spy. When Dreyfus took the dictation without a flicker, the major turned on him and shouted: "You are accused of high treason." Two months later, Dreyfus was court-martialed, found guilty of selling secrets to the Germans, cashiered from the army and sentenced to deportation and exile for life...
Strained Conscience. Treason there was, but the traitor was not Dreyfus. As a Jew, he made an excellent scapegoat. Even after the high command learned that the real traitor was Major Count Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy, decadent scion of the aristocratic Hungarian family, they tried to cover up their mistake and even let Esterhazy keep his rank and assignment. Dreyfus' conviction touched off a wave of anti-Semitism that made it dangerous for anyone to doubt his guilt. But one general-staff officer, Lieut. Colonel Marie-Georges Picquart, found the truth more than his conscience could stand, although he cordially...
...sick, haggard old man walked out of a Hungarian prison last week, a startling anachronism amid the Communist campaign of sweetness and light. After more than six years of imprisonment on charges of treason, espionage and black-market dealings, Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, 63-year-old Roman Catholic Primate of Hungary, had his freedom...
...effective point: the rebels' disregard for the lives of bystanders in their attempt at assassination by aerial bombing. (Agreed a chauffeur: "If they'd had one man with guts, they'd have assassinated Perón openly.") "In the face of such infamy, disloyalty and treason," Perón said sadly, "a man of my age [59] and position needs a great sense of duty and a very solid patriotism to overcome the wish to resign." He praised the Argentine people. He praised the army. He praised the police...
...police. Counter-terrorism began about nine months ago soon after the arrival of gentle Francis Lacoste to succeed General Augustin Guillaume as Resident General. To suspicious French colons, Lacoste, after hard-boiled General Guillaume, smelled of negotiation and compromise, and they denounced the national government's policy as "treason." Clandestine French organizations sprang up, calling themselves "The White Hand," and "Agir" (to act). They were manned by hired killers imported from France, professional thugs, sometimes ex-policemen. Frenchmen who advocated moderation and negotiation began to receive threatening letters ("Pig. you have sold out to the rats. Your days...