Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dangerous" Dies Committee "subversive" lists in determining disloyalty or sympathetic association with groups called subversive by the Attorney General. A person discharged from the government service for disloyalty, he stated, would find himself condemned in the job market and as stigmatized as one convicted of treason...
Touched off by the Canadian Red spy eases, a mounting suspicion of anything left of center has finally shifted into hysterical overdrive with the recent presidential proclamation of a loyalty test for all government employees. The order is couched in stark terms of treason and sedition and proposes to weed out the disloyal elements in the Civil Service. Hopefully flavored with the axiom that all the men serving a government must be faithful, the current tests seem to be the product of a bitter witch hunt rather than the outgrowth of natural security measures...
...aristocrats in Europe were to be hanged. German princes & princesses would lead the way at a mass execution held in front of Berlin's Imperial Palace. The charges: sexual perversion, espionage, high treason...
...last summer and for most of the anti-Semitic activity that has ensued. Unfortunately this traitorous opposition has insinuated itself into a common continuum with the more sincere critics of the current regime. This presents the problem of the government's arbitrary drawing of the line between opposition and treason, and action which involves a great danger. But there is also a danger, perhaps a greater danger, in those extremists whom Mr. Mikolajezyk and his loyal opposition completely disown but who nevertheless remain camouflaged within the ranks of the Peasant Party...
...Communists had curbed personal attacks on men like Georges Bidault, whose Resistance leadership they had accepted. But it was obvious that sooner or later the Communists would do away with such sentimental nonsense. By last week, the last remnants of France's gallant unity crashed in the treason trial of René Hardy...