Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rorty and Decter recognize the necessity of 1) a firm internal security system, and 2) congressional investigations of subversion. But they hold that Anti-Communist McCarthy has consistently used Communists' methods, e.g., the false charge of treason. In the process, they note, he has attacked a wide range of loyal and respected Americans, has seriously disrupted the operations of the U.S. State Department and the Army Signal Corps, and has diverted attention from the real problems of fighting Communism abroad...
...took six years and $1,000,000 to press treason charges against California-born ex-Sergeant John David Provoo, 37, a Buddhist devotee who kowtowed to the Japanese after his capture in World War II. Last year he was sentenced to life imprisonment on testimony that his collaboration with the Japanese caused the death of an American fellow prisoner. Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York reversed his conviction, voiding his trial. Reason: he should have been tried where found (Maryland, not Manhattan), and he should not have been subjected to a "prejudicial . . . utterly irrelevant" cross-examination...
...witnessed one of the bitterest political campaigns in Texas' history. In the runoff primary for governor, between Governor Allan Shivers and Austin Lawyer Ralph Yarborough, the big issue was clear-cut: Yarborough, representing Democrats who stayed with the national party organization in 1952, charged that Shivers committed political treason by swinging Texas to Dwight Eisenhower...
Violent Denunciation. When Greek police arrested Old Party Wheelhorse Ploumbides last year for high treason and espionage, Zachariades joined in with a violent campaign against him. Ploumbides, cried Iron Curtain radio stations, was a stooge, an agent provocateur in the pay of the U.S., Britain and the Greek police...
...fortnightly Episcopal Churchnews called upon Congress for censorship of all forms of mass communication to combat "moral and ethical subversion." Admitting that "to many Americans . . . any mention of censorship is considered closely akin to treason," the magazine held that "a much greater threat lies in the incitements to crime, violence and immorality that are circulated persistently, seven days and nights a week...