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...Paris he had a change of heart. He came home again. He lived among fears that the Germans would snatch him for desertion, that the Resistance would sentence him for treason. On Liberation Day, Claude disappeared into the sand dunes along the Channel coast. Silent and morose, he lived in deserted German bunkers until the Resistance brought him to trial. He was acquitted...
...Peru, as in nine other Latin American countries, capital punishment has long been outlawed. The last Peruvian to suffer the death penalty was a bandit executed by a firing squad in Cajamarca 42 years ago. Last week the Peruvian military junta restored the death penalty for murder, treason and any homicidal action which might "endanger the lives of large numbers of people." Dictator-President Manuel Odria's decree was an obvious warning to the outlawed APRA party: any homicidal action against the junta would endanger many a life...
...hours of deliberation, the jury had made up its mind. There was absolute silence in Federal Judge Edward M. Curran's Washington courtroom as silver-haired Mildred ("Axis Sally") Gillars walked in, smiled faintly, and waited to hear the jury's decision. The verdict: guilty of treason against...
Axis Sally showed no emotion at the verdict, which carries a maximum penalty of death (no traitor has ever been executed in the U.S. for treason against the U.S.), or a minimum of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. But as she left the courtroom she indulged in a final bit of defiant dramatics and daffy reasoning that left newsmen wondering if she really knew what the trial had all been about. Said Traitor Gillars: "I wish those who judge me would be willing to risk their lives for America...
Russia has shown no signs whatever of going to war over the Atlantic Pact. She has fought it tooth & nail, but only with defensive acts of desperation, e.g., international threats of Communist treason. In Rome last week, when Premier De Gasperi announced his cabinet's decision to join the pact, a small mob of Communists in front of the Parliament building shouted, "Down with warmongers and wars!" and "There are pillars in Rome whereon to hang traitors!" They were joined by neo-Fascist youths (members of the Italian Social Movement). The neo-Fascists objected to the pact because...