Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treason. Into a crowded Detroit courtroom strutted 22-year-old Oberleutnant Hans Peter Krug, cocky in the slate-blue uniform of the Luftwaffe. He clicked his heels, saluted a startled bailiff. German-English dictionary in hand, he mounted the witness stand...
...desensationalization of the 40-hour-week brawl [TIME, March 30], and the Standard Oil "treason" case [TIME, April 6], TIME definitely qualifies for the honor of presenting the facts in proper balance...
...most poisonous and pervasive defeatism is not practiced by those who violate the statutes of their country openly. It is practiced by those who take scrupulous care to stay within the law - to come, as one of them is reported to have told his staff, 'as close to treason as I dare...
Leader of the resistance is the ex-Primate of Norway, forthright Bishop Eivind Berggrav of Oslo. Quisling haled him in soon after his resignation, accused him of treason, finally shouted: "You triple traitor! You deserve to have your head chopped off." "Here I am," answered Berggrav, but his offer was not taken...
...Italy, the secret agent who wrote these anonymous reminiscences was haled into an office of the Questura (police) and left alone for two or three hours in the stench of moldy paper and urine characteristic of Italian police stations. Then he was told that he was guilty of high treason and would be shot in the morning. S. K. could not commit suicide, because the police had discovered where he kept his granule of cyanide, and took it away from him. How he got out of that one proved to be a turning point in S. K.'s relations...