Word: treasonously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warwise Canadians, seeking the hard facts of death and disaster, knew one place to find them. In spite of censorship, in spite of anonymous telephone calls accusing him of treason, in the Toronto Star Go-year-old William Rothwell Plewman-platinum-haired and wearer of a tall Herbert Hoover collar-wrote his daily column, The War Reviewed, analyzing World War II as he once analyzed World...
...considered injudicious incitement of a belligerent neighbor, Prime Minister de Valera declared, "It took 600 years to get the British out of this country. We don't want them or any others to come in here again. . . . Unfortunately there is a small group that appears to be meditating treason. I tell them . . . that such a state of affairs will not be tolerated...
...Commons shot the Act through the required three readings by a series of acclamations without recorded ballots. The House of Lords moved even faster. Exactly 163 minutes after being introduced by Socialist Attlee it was signed by King George VI and promulgated. Same day Parliament supplemented the ancient Treason Acts by passing a streamlined Treachery Bill, and under its drastic provisions Home Secretary Sir John Anderson was soon blitzing fifth columnists...
...plan was worked out by Red Army Chief of Staff Boris Shaposhnikov. The Red Army artillery which pounded the Mannerheim Line to bits was in charge of Inspector General Grigory Kulik, cited during the Stalin purge of the Red Army for having "helped to reveal the high treason of two successive chiefs." In reward for their Finnish triumphs, last week Timoshenko, Shaposhnikov and Kulik were made Marshals...
...sent to concentration camps for Communists & Nazis near Paris (soon to be moved to North Africa). Nine Communist ex-Deputies tried in absentia (Paris believes several of these are hiding in the Soviet Embassy) received five-year jail sentences and fines of 5,000 francs, but further charges of "treason against the external safety of the State" will be pressed against them and they may be sentenced to be guillotined should they be caught in France...