Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the prosecutor briefly "summed up the case against Maurras. In L'Action Française he had denounced patriots by name, caused some to be arrested and shot. The judge and four lay consultants deliberated for 90 minutes. Their verdict: Maurras was guilty of treason. His sentence: life imprisonment at hard labor...
...Minister Charles Gavan Power, a shrewd Quebec politician and one of the ablest Cabinet Ministers, submitted his resignation at once. Four French-speaking Liberals (Jean-François Pouliot, Wilfrid LaCroix, Charles E. Parent, Maurice Bourget), strode across the floor to join the Opposition. M. LaCroix cried: "Trahison!" (Treason!) at Mr. King as he went...
...year later Tukhachevsky was arrested on a questionable charge of treason and shot. But not long before his death, Tukhachevsky had written a treatise on mechanization for the Red Army. In it he praised "the brilliant French military writer, De Gaulle." Now his friend De Gaulle, head of the French Government, was the honored guest of the biggest Soviet marshal...
Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson last week charged more than 10,000 striking members of the Mechanics Educational Society of America (independent) with "conduct equivalent to treason." The strike was a jurisdictional dispute between M.E.S.A. and the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers; it had spread from a single small factory to 48 other war plants by order of M.E.S.A.'s energetic Matthew Smith...
...last week-the partition of the soil. Throughout the liberated regions, the Lublin government confiscated all farms (except church lands) of more than 250 acres. Also seized were all lands belonging to the Polish Government in Exile, to German citizens, to Poles convicted in Lublin's courts of treason or assisting the Germans. Seizure of property belonging to the Catholic Church or to "religious communities" would be decided on later when a Sejm (parliament) was elected...