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...bond money elsewhere (some from professional bondsmen, some from community storekeepers). John L. Lewis knows that aid for the indicted miners would infuriate a sizable percentage of U.M.W. members who resented the outlaw strikes and an even larger percentage of U.S. citizens who consider such strikes near treason. Local leaders believe that the sly Old Man of the Mines, considers these cases poor grounds for a Supreme Court fight. But with or without U.M.W., the indictments will almost certainly lead to legal actions which will test how enforceable, how constitutional the Smith-Connally-Harness...
...Temper. Italy's anti-Fascist groups wondered if Blackshirt Fascismo had merely given way to Whiteshirt Fascismo. Cried the underground: "Treason . . . betrayal. . . . We are going from one dictatorship to another. . . . The time has come for [the people] ... to demand ... a clear declaration of [the government's] foreign and internal policy." Giornale d'ltalia, no longer edited by Mussolini Mouthpiece Virginio Gayda (rumored a suicide), warned: "[Italy might have as much to fear] from her friends as from her enemies." Milan's Corriere della Sera, mutilated by the censor, voiced a widespread worry: "The limpid truths...
...time to read the riot act to some . . . teachers. They are just as dangerous, just as guilty of treason as the man who blows up the White House. There is a rule of the Board of Education that a teacher . . . guilty of gross misconduct may be dropped.. . . But the teacher who teaches pacifism . ... is a thousand times more dangerous . . . than the teacher who gets drunk and lies in the gutter...
Back to Spain. After the war Bazaine returned to Paris to become the national scapegoat, to be charged with treason for surrendering. He was court-martialed, condemned to death as a traitor. Later his sentence was commuted to 20 years' imprisonment in an island jail off the French Riviera. One dark night the 63-year-old Marshal knotted his baggage straps into a rope, attached one end to his body and tied the other end to a gargoyle, slid down, escaped. In 1888 he died in Spain...
Twelve hours before the trap was to be sprung, the President commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. Argued Humanitarian Roosevelt: there are different qualities of treason. Stephan's was a low degree of treason, it was not preconceived. Warden Cecil J. Shuttleworth told once-tough Nazi Stephan. He kissed the warden's hands, hugged his lawyers, kissing and crying and laughing...