Word: treasonous
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...same sunny mood seemed to envelop the framers of Bulgaria's new Constitution, which abolished the death penalty. This was good news for Bulgaria, for Russia and for Nikola Petkoff, secretary of Bulgaria's Agrarian Party, whom the Bulgarian Government recently condemned to death for treason...
Petkoff's "treason" consisted of his outspoken stand against Bulgaria's Communist-dominated regime. When the U.S. protested against his sentence, both Bulgaria and Russia replied that it was "a pure Bulgarian home question." Nevertheless, Bulgaria, which had just concluded a peace treaty with the Allies, would like to be admitted to the U.N., and the Petkoff sentence stood in the way. If the National Assembly ratified the Constitution (as it was sure to), Bulgaria would no longer be obliged to execute Petkoff, and the U.S. would have no talking point. Best of all, since Petkoff...
...Moscow was ruled by Ivan IV, called the Terrible, who decisively defeated the Tartars and gave Moscow its first secret police-the blackclad Oprichniki ("extras"), who were mounted on black horses and carried a broom and a dog's head at their saddle, "to sweep and gnaw away treason." When much of Moscow was destroyed by the huge fire of 1547, Ivan retired to the Sparrow Hills so as not to see the sufferings of his people. That gesture was typical of Moscow's rulers and their relation to the ragged mass on whom the splendors...
...year history of the Soviet Union, philosophical quarrels have sometimes had fatal results. Long before he was tried for alleged treason and executed, Nikolai Bukharin had been attacked for philosophical deviation. But Bukharin never recanted. Aleksandrov did, and last week Pravda reported: "Aleksandrov fully agreed with the criticism, acknowledged that his book had serious failures and mistakes, and agreed that the whole organization of a new scientific work in the branch of philosophy should be fundamentally changed...
...other extreme rightists were arrested, among them Major Georges Loustaneau-Lacau, a former Pétain aide who turned up at Pétain's treason trial to defend the Marshal-even though Pétain had not lifted a finger when the Nazis put Loustaneau-Lacau in a concentration camp. Another of the arrested plotters was General Maurice Guillaudot, who was about to go to a banquet when police came for him. Said he: "I understand what is involved. Just let me go to my banquet." The French police, who pride themselves on being raisonnable...