Word: treasonously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tumbril but in a Black Maria, Henri Philippe Pétain, 89, hero of Verdun, Marshal of France and chief of the late Vichy Government, rode to one of history's great trials-his own, for high treason. With him rode the France of 1940 to be judged by the France...
Mumbled Léon Blum, 73, Socialist Premier of France's Popular Front Government (1936-37): "The Marshal . . . used his personality . . . and his prestige to lead France into shame. ... I call that treason." (Twice Léon Blum broke down and cried. The Marshal, who once tried Blum for war guilt at Riom, eyed him without visible emotion...
...important as history, supplying much material the world never knew or has already forgotten about Russia's internal and external affairs from 1936 to 1939. (Barmine points out that the Purge, and Soviet charges that most of Russia's general staff and high diplomats had committed treason with Germany, was one reason why Britain and France did not push harder for a Russian alliance in 1939.) The book is important as a record of the mechanics of the change whereby socialist states are transformed into police states. It is important as a moral and political indictment of Europe...
Scum, Mad Dogs, Vermin. A few days later Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and most of the top men in the Red Army's general staff were arrested and shot for "treason." Cried the Soviet radio: "Fascist traitors," "mad dogs," "criminal scum of humanity." "stinking vermin." Says Barmine: "I knew better...
Died. Harold Norman Denny, 56, able, longtime roving correspondent for the New York Times in five wars (Morocco, 1926; Nicaragua, 1928; Ethiopia, 1935; Finland. 1939; World War II) and one insurrection (Cuba, 1930), who earned a diplomatic protest from Russia by his candid coverage of the 1936-38 Soviet treason trials; of a heart attack; in Des Moines, Iowa. Captured in Libya in 1941 and imprisoned for six months, he later followed the First Army from the Normandy beachheads to the union with the Russians. His advice to war reporters: "A dead correspondent sends no dispatches...