Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spitting. It was then Vishinsky's turn to get up and talk. Famed as the tigerish prosecutor of the Moscow treason trials (TIME, Aug. 31, 1936), Vishinsky was badly handicapped last week by having to stop every two minutes to be trans lated. His tall young interpreter, Vladimir Postoyev, became more & more agonized trying to translate Vishinsky's Soviet hairsplitting. When the agonized young man finally faltered, Vishinsky half whirled around, spat something at him, grimly watched the luckless linguist jump as though he had been shot...
...Beria's four predecessors in the C.H.E.K.A., Ogpit, N.K.V.D.: Felix Dzerzhinsky (1917-26), relieved and died of heart attack 1926; Viacheslav Menshinsky (1926-34), died in office 1934! Genrikh Yagoda (1934-36), relieved in 1936, shot for treason 1938; Nikolai Yezhov (1936-38), relieved in 1938, disappeared from public view in 1939, believed dead or insane...
When his time came to die for treason, John Amery, 33, rose and shaved himself carefully. The night before, he had taken leave of his parents. Leopold S. Amery, once Secretary of State for India, knew that no power on earth could save the life of his ne'er-do-well...
Ezra Pound set back the cause of modern poetry 20 years by being certified insane. The board of Washington psychiatrists who certified him thus revived many laymen's suspicions about poets in general. Psychiatrists described Poet Pound, awaiting trial for treason (pro-Axis broadcasts from Rome), as "abnormally grandiose, expansive and exuberant in manner," judged him "mentally unfit" to defend himself, had him packed off to a local asylum...
Shortly after the judge "entered in shriveled and eccentric majesty," Amery, to everyone's surprise, pleaded guilty to the treason charge. "In effect the young man was saying 'I insist on being hanged by the neck in three weeks' time.' A murmur ran through the court which was expostulatory, which' was horrified, which was tinged with self-pity, for this was suicide. ... It was quite clear that he was . . . congratulating himself on having at last, at the end of his muddled and frustrated existence, achieved an act crystal line in its clarity. . . ." That kind...