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...with me to help me. He said: "I saw George Eltenton [a Russian-trained scientist] recently." [He said that] Eltenton had told him that he had a method ... of getting technical information to Soviet scientists. He didn't describe the means. I thought I said, "But that is treason." I'm not sure. I said anyway something, "This is a terrible thing to do." Chevalier said or expressed complete agreement. That was the end of it. It was a very brief conversation...
...Somewhere over the border" Castillo Armas this week proclaimed a "provisional government" and issued his first fiery statement. "The dawn of liberation illuminates our land," it said. "The glorious struggle has begun against tyranny, treason, deceit and shame . . . Assault the garrisons of the Communists and capture them. They are cowards!" A certain amount of hyperbole is doubtless permissible in a manifesto issued on such an emotional occasion; Castillo Armas probably knows quite well that some Communists are cowards and some are nothing of the sort. And while he may regard Fellow Traveler Arbenz as a tyrant or a traitor...
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...
...Iran, an appeals tribunal upheld the punishment of former Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, who, in deference to his allergy to jail, had got one of history's shortest stretches for high treason: three years in prison, thus far livened only by a "fast unto death" that lasted two days...
...former resolving doubts in favor of the individual, the latter in favor of the government. But these are honest differences over means to an agreed-upon end. In the President, the Democrats are not dealing with a man who publicly equates the Democratic administrations with "Twenty Years of Treason...