Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looks contemporary to readers in 1940. "The inner structure of the country was still far from stable. The idea of national unity . . . was at times the concern of the burghers merely and the townsfolk, who formed the main bulwark of the kingdom; the great feudal nobles . . . played at high treason. ... As for the Protestants, they were a still greater danger, a State within the State." Menacing Spain had its fifth columns among Catholics and Huguenots. The Huguenots conspired with the Protestant Germans and with England, the Kremlin of the Reformation...
...Fifth-column activities have little in common with old-fashioned espionage or sabotage such as the Germans used in World War I to destroy $150,000,000 of U. S. property. Adolf Hitler has perfected "the science of treason'' - which now includes not only the theft or purchase of military and naval secrets, the damaging or destruction of defense equipment, but the demoralizing of public opinion, the conscious exploitation of class and racial differences, the systematic irritation of disputes, the vigorous organization of hatred and suspicion...
...debate calmly the merits of Republicans Stimson and Knox in a Democratic Cabinet, the opportunity disappeared in the feverish political atmosphere of Convention Week. Senatorial debate grew bitter, reached a new low in wild charges and venomous insinuations, punctuated with cries of warmongering from Isolationists, and virtual accusations of treason from West Virginia's lame-duck Rush Holt. Both the Naval Affairs Cormmittee and the Committee on Military Affairs decided to hold public hearings, quiz Republicans Knox and Stimson after the Convention recess...
...Evidence of Fifth Column treason...
...treason of Norwegian Nazis like Quisling...