Word: treasonously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week Andrei Vishinsky, Russian-Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, strode into the paneled, tapestried chamber of Paris' Palace of Justice where Pétain and Laval were tried for treason. For two hours he spoke on "Principles of Soviet Law" to a group of 200 French Resistance lawyers and their families...
...Abstain Is Treason." In normally conservative country districts, the extreme Left scored gains. In normally radical industrial centers, including Paris, the extreme Left lost ground. For this unexpected twist there was an explanation. Communist propaganda had reached its peak effectiveness in the politically conscious cities last October. Since then, city-dwellers had mulled over the Red slogan, "Thorez to Power!", balked at the implication of dictatorship. The crest of Communist propaganda had hit rural areas later. Country folks' reaction to the cry for power to Communist Leader Maurice Thorez might well become evident in next month's elections...
Again, the Communists had failed to reckon with the Church. No blaring slogans or challenging invective came from Catholic pulpits. But on Sunday (i.e., election day) morning, cures throughout France preached that "to abstain from the polls is treason." The congregations went out from Mass to cast their...
...footnote to your reference to Caballero's "missing" son? He was Franco's prisoner. Franco offered to exchange him for a leader of the Falangist movement, in jail and coming up for trial on charge of treason to the Republic. Caballero refused. His son, Caballero said, had committed no crime...
Died. Jean Luchaire, 45, arch-collaborating French journalist who headed the Nazi-controlled Paris press, father of pretty, pouting, collaborating Cinemactress Corinne Luchaire*; before a firing squad, for treason; at Fort de Chatillon, Paris...