Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William ("Lord Haw Haw of Hamburg") Joyce, 39. For the purpose, a British statute nearly six centuries old was dusted off. Joyce, charged the Court, "adhered to the King's enemies elsewhere than in the King's realm, to wit, in the German realm contrary to the Treason...
With his shaved head showing only grey fuzz, his scarred face pale, Joyce stood stiffly erect in the dock, murmured: "I have heard the charge and take cognizance of it." He was also cognizant that the penalty for treason is death. Joyce had been poorly paid by the Nazis for his treasonable broadcasts, was now penniless. Under the Poor Prisoners' Defence Act, he was certified as entitled to free defense counsel. Then he was whisked to Brixton Prison in a Black Maria. On arrival, he had said: "So this is Brixton." "Yes," snapped his guard, "not Belsen...
Government to ease the situation. . . . Just as in California, they have been forcibly evacuated even though not one of them has committed any acts of treason or sabotage...
...Questions. Few who read further than the headlines supposed that any of those arrested were guilty of actual treason; they had perhaps been trying to force the Government's hand in China, as all Communists, as well as their friends -conscious and unconscious-have long been trying to do. The question at issue seemed to be: how far can a journalist go in divulging official secrets? Top Washington newsmen, who are constantly digging for "confidential" information, began to wonder where they stood. At his press conference, Secretary Grew admitted that the State Department often classifies material "top secret...
Ezra Pound, brick-bearded expatriot facing a U.S. treason charge for broadcasting Fascist propaganda from Italy, debated what poetic justice should be in his case, finally concluded: "Well, if I ain't worth more alive than dead, that's that. If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinion, either his opinions are no good or he's no good...