Word: treasonous
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Naturally, Ambler's villains aren't getting their orders from Berlin this time. With his usual sound grasp of regional realities, he wraps his story around the "treason" trial of a liberal politician. Why have the Reds gone after Yordan Delt-chev in the first place? And why have they thrown such fantastic charges at him? Ambler thrusts his British journalist hero, Foster, into the thick of things to ask those questions, then leads him a chase to the answers. Foster trips over a corpse almost as soon as he begins to poke around...
This year's bill, far more inclusive than those in the past years, would permit the Attorney General to investigate any group for possible subversive activities. Any groups directly or indirectly advocating treason or the violent overthrow of the government would be illegal...
Specifically, the bill provides that any organization is illegal if it "teaches a program of sabotage, force or violence, edition or treason against the government of the United States or of this commonwealth...
...anti-Communist liberals, mostly middle and upper class business and professional people. . .the same strata in which Benedict Arnold moved so freely during the American Revolution." In the February 12 issue, one writer defines liberalism as "a potpourri of indiscriminant do-goodism trending into statism and blending indistinguishably into treason." In a later issue an article titled "The Red Mole" states that there is no non-Communist Left, "just a Left with Socialists, Communists, Liberals, Humanitarians, and Idealists. . . all mixed together...
Generalissimo Francisco Franco had a suggestion: France should let its one-time ambassador to Spain, Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, now under a life sentence for treason, come to live in Spain and enjoy "the hospitality of our wonderful Mediterranean climate, where, until passions die down, he could spend the last years of his life, loved and respected." In Paris, a few World War I veterans, celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Battle of Verdun, remembered their old hero, set up a chant of "Set Pétain free" before police could silence them...