Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some way that sabotage of anything concerned with defense be made a Federal offense if it is not such already and that sentence of death can be made in the discretion of the court. Let them also establish and publicize very severe penalties culminating in death penalty for treason. If it doesn't require legislation, let's give publicity to the possibility that the death penalty would be executed...
...Reader Greenman should be satisfied with the present penalties. For sabotage: a fine up to $10,000 and imprisonment up to ten years ( in wartime up to 30 years). For treason: the death penalty or, at the court's discretion, imprisonment for not less than five years and a fine of not less than...
...hospital roof. Much of the book is the story of the Norwegian Government's retreat to the north, its efforts to establish a front there. Except for the case of Quisling, "a very well-read man with a weakness for German philosophy," Hambro specifically denies that treason played an important part in Norway's fall. Such charges, says he, are real fifth calumny. He says all the Norwegians were brave...
...chief complaints is that the French general staff did not rely on the Red Army during the Munich crisis. Forgotten by Author Simone apparently is the fact that a year before Munich the Soviet Government officially announced that it had executed its leading marshal and seven generals for high treason, presumably with the Germans. J'Accuse! may be an offensive-defense from the left against mouthing charges that the Popular Front was responsible for lowering French plane production to 38 planes a month in 1937; that after the signing of the Berlin-Moscow pact French Communists sullenly sabotaged...
...tabloid PM. During World War I, Raemaekers made two cartoons a day, saw his work blown up in posters as big as 15 by 20 yards, was so powerful that he could portray his employer, Mr. Hearst, as an evil-looking dispenser of "seedition" (sowing seeds marked "cowardice" and "treason"). An obvious likeness of Hearst, although it did not bear his name, the cartoon appeared in Hearstpapers. Last week Louis Raemaekers hoped to shape U. S. opinion in World War II as he had in World...