Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upper Hand. He was scarcely a welcome addition. Philippine armymen bluntly recommended that Bandit Taruc be brought to trial (for murder, treason and arson) and quickly sentenced to death. They well remembered Taruc's last"surrender"-in 1948, when he accepted an amnesty, returned to his seat in the Philippine Congress (to which he was elected in the liberation days of 1946), collected his back pay, and skedaddled back to the Luzon hills. This time, snapped General Jesus Vargas, the army's chief of staff, no deal had been made; Magsaysay owed Taruc nothing."We have the upper...
Then he demanded: "Are we any safer . . . because General [George] Marshall was branded as a traitor? No, we aren't. But we are a little less honorable . . . Are we any safer because nonconformity has been practically identified with treason? I think not . . . Are we any more to be feared by the Communists because of all the hundreds of headlines the Senator from Wisconsin has piled up? I don't believe...
...Ezra (Pisan Cantos) Pound, 68. After more than 30 years as an expatriate. Pound began spouting the Fascist line for Mussolini in World War II broadcasts from Rome and Milan. But it was hard to define just what might constitute "clemency" for Pound. In 1945 he escaped trial for treason because he was adjudged insane, and has since whiled away his declining years translating Confucius in a Washington, D.C. mental hospital...
...sensational tricks to get circulation, used shock tactics to get Bostonians to read his own Page One editorials and his financial column under the byline "Washington Waters." Harvardman Fox also lashed out at his alma mater as a hotbed of Reds, and later took credit for the Post because "treason has gone out of style at Harvard." He urged, in effect, that the U.S. end the cold war by starting World War III. "The Great Attack, the last one we consider to be inevitable within five years ... We also think that THERE IS AT LEAST A 50-50 CHANCE THAT...
...Smith Act, used during the Truman administration, provides punishment for anyone conspiring to advocate the Government's overthrow. In addition, such a conspiracy is a felony, and persons convicted of a felony are now deprived of virtually all the rights of citizenship. Further, persons convicted of actual treason have every right of citizenship taken away. So the Administration's new bill would not deprive of citizenship a single Communist who would not already be in jail with his rights seriously curtailed. It seems little more than a sop tossed out to appease the witch-hunters...