Word: treasonously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small, oak-paneled room of London's Old Bailey, the chief criminal court in England, Joyce strode to the dock, bowed jerkily to the red-robed presiding justice, Sir Frederick Tucker, and sat down in a straight-backed chair. The charge against him was treason: that he had "adhered to the King's enemies" by broadcasting propaganda from Germany. A clerk asked him how he pleaded. The prisoner's reply rang out: "Not guilty...
...deny any of the state's major charges, but he claimed to have saved Norway from becoming a battlefield. He even boasted of his sentimental friendship with Hitler. With evangelical fervor he called himself a prophet and a patriot. His last feeble shout: "If my activity has been treason, then in God's name I hope that for the sake of Norway many of her sons will become the same kind of traitor...
...shrilly defended his collaboration, swore that he had been loyal to the Republic. The People's Court in Prague heard him patiently, weighed his words against his deeds: persecution of Jews, jailing of students, Germanizing of Czechs, toadying to Hitler. Then it sentenced him to death for high treason...
...first Germans to reach Prague carried a warrant for Gedye's arrest on a charge of "treason" (for helping Austrian refugees to flee). For ten days he hid in the attic of the British Legation until he could escape across the Polish border. Once away, Gedye was sent to Moscow for the New York Times, did not like it there, was glad when the chance came to help his native England fight for its own freedom -and Austria...
...sullen silence he listened while Special Prosecutor Annaeus SchjÖdt read the charge-a catalog of shame reaching to high treason and murder...