Word: treasonous
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...first question concerns the fairness of the Republic's wide constitutional definition of treason; the second wonders if Germany's executive has done away with representative government; the third involves the embarrassing symbol of secret, sudden, police tactics; the fourth asks if a Cabinet minister and perhaps also the chief executive have been exploiting weaknesses in the constitution, ministries, and Bundestag to carry on a private feud. Getting ride of a few officials has neither answered these questions nor prevented them from being raised again and again the future. Nor has the government's response: largely confined to denouncing...
Everybody Out. Adenauer was not conceding that there had been anything wrong about the action against Der Spiegel. After all, he insisted on television, possible treason was involved: "I maintain that the arrests and searches were carried out by the responsible organs of the government because of the urgent suspicion of a crime directed against the security of the German people." But Strauss remained a major political embarrassment...
...also said that my honorable friend was believed to have spent holidays abroad with Vassall before." Explaining that his informant had heard this account of the case from "a leading member of the press." Macmillan declared: "This story, if it were true, would amount to something akin to treason...
...noisiest, angriest Bundestag session in years greeted Adenauer as he rose to state the government's case. The opposition shouts of "Gestapo!" and ''Neofascist!" only made the old man angrier. "Who is this Herr Augstein, anyway?" cried der Alte. "He makes money out of committing treason and I think that is indecent...
...baroque Bavarian, Franz Josef Strauss, West Germany's Defense Minister. Last week Strauss admitted that he himself had telephoned West Germany's military attaché in Madrid on the night of the arrests, ordered him to "inform" Spanish authorities that a warrant of arrest on suspicion of treason had been issued against Spiegel Editor Conrad Ahlers, who was vacationing on the Spanish coast. Even though he willingly would have returned on his own, Spanish cops locked Ahlers up for 28 hours, sent him back under escort to Germany, where he was promptly arrested...