Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iles du Salut, high, rocky, mile-long Ile Royale, and there set at hard labor, perhaps even put in an isolated pit. If considered a mental case he may enter a madman's cell, on Ile St. Joseph. If he has been convicted of treason, he will probably be sent to live in a hut on the most famous of this trio of islands-the 34-acre, bleak Il du Diable, or Devil's Island. Not more than 25 traitors to France have generally inhabited Devil's Island at one time. Currently only five or six exiles...
...themselves whether "internal trouble" was developing in newly-absorbed Austria. There they questioned their host, hard-boiled Reich Commissioner for Austria Josef Bürckel, about his No. 1 prisoner, Kurt von Schuschnigg, independent Austria's last Chancellor. Information gleaned: Dr. Schuschnigg will be tried for "high treason" the Nazi regime does not recognize marriage by proxy, hence holds that the last Chancellor's reported marriage in June to the Countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen, in which the groom was represented by his brother, is not valid:* the Countess was ordered separated from Dr. Schuschnigg because...
Last week, in Bucharest, this champion hater faced a treason charge before a military tribunal of King Carol's officers. Charged with plotting to kidnap His Majesty and set up a Fascist state with himself as Führer and Adolf Hitler as an ally, Leader Codreanu was found guilty, sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Balkan justice being what it is, Leader Codreanu was considered to have got off lightly. In the complex fabric of Balkan politics, however, the sentence did mean that King Carol was taking no nonsense from Nazis or Nazi friends...
From Barcelona last week came confirmation that while Leftist troops were busy with their retreat to the sea month ago. Leftist military tribunals were busy wiping out disaffection behind the lines. During April in Barcelona alone 135 death penalties were dealt out, 103 for "defeatism" and treason...
Short of high treason, the gravest form of breach of the peace known to British law is riot, a statutory offense and an indictable misdemeanor. In Jamaica last fortnight black natives employed on British plantations at 50? per day made efforts to obtain $1 per day such as to lay them open to the charge of riot...