Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back to Spain. After the war Bazaine returned to Paris to become the national scapegoat, to be charged with treason for surrendering. He was court-martialed, condemned to death as a traitor. Later his sentence was commuted to 20 years' imprisonment in an island jail off the French Riviera. One dark night the 63-year-old Marshal knotted his baggage straps into a rope, attached one end to his body and tied the other end to a gargoyle, slid down, escaped. In 1888 he died in Spain...
Twelve hours before the trap was to be sprung, the President commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. Argued Humanitarian Roosevelt: there are different qualities of treason. Stephan's was a low degree of treason, it was not preconceived. Warden Cecil J. Shuttleworth told once-tough Nazi Stephan. He kissed the warden's hands, hugged his lawyers, kissing and crying and laughing...
...believe the activities of John L. Lewis have entered the realm of treason. Nor is John Lewis a traitor to his Government alone. He has betrayed by his excesses the cause of union labor. . . . He has betrayed the spirit of democracy. . . . He has betrayed the belief of the American soldier that this would be a war in which individuals' interests would be sublimated to the common purpose...
...Labor Board came right out and said this week that John L. Lewis' defiance of the Government "gives aid and comfort to our enemies." The law has a word for giving aid & comfort to the enemy in time of war. The word is treason. If the Government meant what it said, its next step would be to place John L. Lewis under arrest...
...Bishop Laurenz Jaeger of Paderborn in Westphalia issued a pastoral letter warning their faithful against the Hitlerian campaign for more babies through forced marriages, or even no marriage at all. Noting a growth of free love, adultery and divorce, the prelates flatly denied the Nazi theory that virginity is "treason to the race," and attacked the Nazi teaching that "denies a great difference between men and animals...