Word: treasonous
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...they intervened, the British have handled the situation rather as the MVD or Gestapo might have. The Army has raided the homes of ousted officials and their friends, searching for incriminating documents. And although Cheddi Jagan, ex-prime minister, and his fellow ministers were fired for what amounts to treason, there have been no official charges against them. So, England has dissolved the legally elected Guianan government without formally accusing it of more than possessing an aura of Communism...
Five years ago, Britain's Labor Party would have howled down such statements with shouts of "Reaction!", "Treason to the Cause!" Last week, when they heard them, 3,000 Labor Party delegates applauded vigorously. By overwhelming majorities the party's 52nd Annual Conference, meeting in Margate, chucked out a string of leftist proposals to nationalize: 1) the land, 2) the aircraft industry, 3) machine tools, 4) arms plants. In so doing, it confirmed what was fast becoming apparent: that "nationalization," the great solve-all of the doctrinaires, has worn out its welcome in Britain...
...Crimes. The major was Gamal Abdel Nasser, now the brains and driving force behind Egypt's ruling revolutionary government. Last week, nervous and shaking, grey-haired Ibrahim Abdel Hady stood before the extraordinary Revolutionary Tribunal charged with six crimes: conspiring with a foreign power against the regime, treason, corruption, graft, terrorism, complicity in murder. His was the first trial under the new tribunal...
...Premier seemed in a daze, and sat gazing numbly, occasionally lighting a cigarette. He spoke once in sentences that trembled past his lips: "I am sure of my innocence. A man devoted his whole life to serve his country and yet he is charged with treason. I leave my fate in your hands. If ending Abdel Hady's life is in the interests of Egypt, let it end. I am still the Egyptian youth who served his country...
...Warsaw, Bishop Czelaw Kaczmarek, latest scapegoat in Communism's running battle with the church, was consigned to prison for twelve years. After two years in prison, the bishop had "confessed" to such crimes as treason, spying for the U.S. and the Vatican-more than enough to hang him for, if he were really guilty. ¶ British officials in Germany paid 22,500 Deutsche Mark ($5,357) damages to Hans Klose, an ex-Wehrmacht private who was captured by the British and turned over to the Russians for five years' imprisonment on the mistaken impression that...