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...MEANING OF TREASON by Rebecca Wesf. 374 pages. Viking...
From her lofty eminence as one of the world's most celebrated woman authors, Dame Rebecca West has been passing chilly judgment on traitors for some years now. Her earlier book, The Meaning of Treason, which dealt mostly with Nazi traitors, has now been expanded to include more recent defectors to Communism: Klaus Fuchs, Burgess and McLean, the Rosenbergs; and she winds up with a few words on the madcap, if not strictly treasonous, doings of Christine Keeler and friends...
...quarrel with the facts that Dame Rebecca presents, and there is no one who tells a better tale of espionage. The quarrel is with the "meaning" she assigns this espionage. Because Klaus Fuchs is a scientist and intellectually arrogant, she suggests that all scientists are peculiarly prone to treason. Because most of the traitors did not be lieve in God, she suggests that Communism or Nazism is the only alternative to faith in God. She is perfectly correct in charging the West, and Great Britain in particular, with egregious laxity in letting Communist spies steal so many atomic secrets...
Limited Power. The key test for holding a person is "probable cause"-a fluid concept that Chief Justice John Marshall defined in the 1807 Aaron Burr treason case as "evidence furnishing good reason to believe that the crime alleged has been committed by the person charged with committing it." Such evidence may be no more than an FBI agent's testimony, or the arrest warrant signed by the commissioner himself. The evidence may be inadmissible at the accused's eventual trial. It may be insufficient for indictment by a federal grand jury, which is the sole indictor under...
...ugly power struggle between Cuba's old-line, Moscow-oriented Communists and the unorthodox Fidelistas, whom they deride as "adventurers." In recent months, four Moscow wingers have been sacked by Fidelistas from high government posts, while more than 70 army officers have been jailed on charges ranging from treason to conspiring to assassinate Castro...