Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attaint James Duke of Monmouth of High Treason...
...carefully documented tradition of Henry Adams-i.e., unsparing, exact, relying largely on original sources, skeptical of pretensions to high motives. There is, in fact, an undercurrent of exasperation in Author Miller's account, as if he placed the grim record of incompetence and theft and treason in evidence, and said: "Now cheer." Curiously enough, the heroism of the seven years' struggle is all the more remarkable in an account that gives few people credit for much of anything, let alone heroism...
...General Karel Janousek, wartime commander of the Czech air force in Britain, was condemned to death for treason when he tried to flee the country. (The sentence was commuted to 18 years at hard labor.) Seventeen other Czech air force men managed to escape to Britain in a "borrowed" plane...
...threat to French security; in Germany they denounced France and her allies as a threat to German unity. In Germany they openly called for the return of the Eastern German territories ceded to Poland at war's end, and in Poland they denounced any such suggestion as high treason...
...without the dire consequences predicted by Ellenborough, gibbet and gallows were prescribed for fewer & fewer crimes. When murder was crossed off the list last week, only three capital crimes remained: high treason in time of war, piracy with violence, arson in dockyards...