Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British had caught William Joyce, alias Lord Haw Haw, the Humbug of Hamburg, and they knew exactly what to do with him. He stood accused of one of the oldest crimes known to man: treason...
...cell was ready & waiting in London's Old Bailey. In the old days, a man convicted of treason would have been dragged behind a horse to the scaffold, hanged, disembowelled, beheaded and quartered. Now, after due trial, he would simply be taken to the Tower and hanged...
...Hero of Verdun, Marshal of France and Chief of State of Vichyfrance, was home again. It was his 89th birthday. With German permission, through the Swiss Government, the Marshal had offered to surrender himself to the French Government of General Charles de Gaulle and to stand trial for high treason. The offer had been accepted...
...Nazi radio took full credit for the murders. It boasted that underground courts had condemned the collaborating officials to death for treason, that underground killers-"Werewolves"-had carried out the sentence...
...large, they were the fanatical, troublemaking variety of Nisei segregated at Tule Lake, Calif., for disloyalty. Until a year ago change of allegiance was so difficult to achieve that a Nisei had to commit treason or desert from the armed forces to make it. Now, thanks to a recent act of Congress, anybody can renounce his U.S. citizenship if the U.S. Attorney General finds it is not contrary to the national defense...