Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Slovak National Court in Bratislava came Father Josef Tiso, a man long cheated of his proper niche in history. Scrupulous justice would have made Tiso's name (and not that of Johnny-come-lately Vidkun Quisling) a worldwide synonym for treason...
...Roman Catholic priesthood, fat, bullet-headed Josef Tiso had successively sold out the Slovaks to the Austrians and Hungarians, and then helped sell out the Czechoslovak Republic to the Nazis. In 1939, he became the first puppet President of a subjugated nation. To the court opening his trial for treason, Tiso explained that he held the puppet presidency of Slovakia only to safeguard Slovak interests. This didn't much impress Slovaks with long memories, nor did it impress the Vatican, which has said no single word in Tiso's behalf...
...military equipment, America continues to do business with Franco. Aside from the reprehensibility of dealing with a nation which for almost ten years has held a large and important section of its population in semi-slavery maintaining relations with the cradle of the new European Fascism is almost treason. And until such time as we face the Spanish situation fully and fearlessly, the United States cannot resume its discarded mantle of moral leadership of the world...
...President, he gave only lukewarm support to the Government. When his own ideas of states' rights and constitutional liberty were infringed by the Confederate Congress, he sulked in Georgia, refused even to go to Richmond. By 1864 he had become so embittered that he began to talk outright treason: a separate peace with the North...
Died. General Draja Mihailovich, 53, leader of Chetnik resistance to Axis armies, former Minister of War in King Peter II's Government in Exile, and its chief representative in Yugoslavia up to March 1944; before a firing squad, after conviction by a Tito court of "treason and collaboration with the enemy...