Word: treasonous
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...here or there there is a cowardly individual among us who might put a comfortable life above the honor and the future of our people, and who might through treason and infidelity . . . stab the fighting front in the back, we are determined . . . to cut off his head...
Cried the Tokyo radio: Marshal Pietro Badoglio committed "a glowing act of treason against the tripartite pact," but Japan and Germany were prepared for just such an incident. And so, said an official government statement, Japan "has taken measures considered necessary after consideration of all eventualities." The "measures": all Italian interests in the Far East, specifically...
...Russia since the Bolshevik revolution. Following his enthronement, the Metropolitan blessed the Soviet Government (whose members, like all Communists, are atheists), and invoked the dire penalty of excommunication on Orthodox priests and laity anywhere in the world who by cooperating with the Nazis have been guilty of "Judas treason." In London, meanwhile, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was "most happy" over the renewed relations between the Church of England and the Russian Church, hoped the Russians would return the visit soon...
...prisoner suspected of informing on these heroes the camp had a secret court, judge and jury. "Willful treason" was punishable by death-the stool pigeon surreptitiously dropped through a hole in the ice of the Oder River. Willful disclosure of minor information was punished by six rounds in the ring with the camp's boxing champion. Disclosure through stupidity marked the offender as "utterly dangerous"; he was completely ostracized...
Ezra Pound, 56, the sharp-bearded, incoherent, choleric poet's poet from Idaho, persistent expatriate (since 1908), sage of Rapallo and champion of Fascism, was indicted by a District of Columbia grand jury for treason...