Word: treasonous
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...climbed from a locksmith's shop to a Communist education in Moscow and up to the posts of Deputy Premier, Finance Minister and No. 3 Red in postwar Rumania. Purged in 1952, Luca has since been in prison. Last week Bucharest announced that he had been convicted of treason and handed the death sentence...
...about letting sleeping dogs lie. Any hint of co-existing with Russia could be neatly scotched by saying that such a move would be lying down together like dogs. Or, in reflecting on the thankless job of those who are trying to rid the government of 20 years of treason, he could say that his is a dog's life. While the canine cliche has a good, true ring to us, there is a small minority which thinks that Secretary Wilson is barking up the wrong tree. They could be right...
...hero of John Dos Passos' new novel, and in his person, it seems, the author sees all the fierce young social spirits who came roaring out of the '20s got soft and successful in the '30s, dangled guiltily between big money and little treason, and have recently been hitting the sawdust trail in congressional committees...
Last week, with most of the ring in jail, the government lifted censorship slightly, revealing that it had arrested 400 officers for "working in the interests of a foreign power." "Almost all ... have confessed to their crime of treason," added Teheran grimly...
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...