Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of bark that Joseph Stalin, at that time in the middle of his struggle for power, liked. Three years later Vishinsky was State Prosecutor in a series of trials of former Bolsheviks charged with treason, terrorism and various crimes against the state (i.e., 'Stalin). The technique of confession was now brought to its highest point. Revolutionaries of the toughest fiber yielded easily to Vishinsky's interrogation. "You son of a pig and a bull," he shouted at Bolshevik Theorist Bukharin. In his summing up, he cried: "Crush the accursed vipers . . . foul dogs . . . disgusting villains! We cannot leave...
...Czechoslovakia, November 1952, Rudolf Slansky, Communist Party secretary-general, and 13 high-placed codefendants confessed to high treason, conspiracy, murder, espionage, Titoism, Zionism, in behalf of "foreign imperialist agents." Who was their spymaster? "The well-known agent Field." Verdict: death on the gallows for Slansky and ten others; imprisonment for three...
...French say they will not negotiate the Algerian question-that revolt on the soil of Algeria is treason. "The only negotiation," said Interior Minister Francois Mitterrand, "is war." The Algerian nationalists have an answer: "La valise ou le cercueil"-meaning, if you don't take a traveling bag, you will get a coffin...
...start at the Journal-American doing a repentant series on how he was "duped by false pictures of the Soviet Utopia." After that his exposes of party-liners he had known were often spread across Page One. Columnist Westbrook Pegler called him "one of the most effective enemies of treason in American journalism." To Senator Joe McCarthy, who measures his praise carefully, he was "one of our outstanding Americans at this time...
Sweltering last spring in the uncomfortable heat of the Army-McCarthy hearing, President Eisenhower made the statement that the issue of Communism in the Democratic administration and "20 years of treason" would not be a part of this Fall's campaign. Severely, he decried the tactic of impugning the patriotism and loyalty of a responsible sections of the nation's opinion...