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Other major collaborators-Norway's Vidkun Quisling, France's Pierre Laval-were executed long ago by their countrymen, but Degrelle managed to escape to Spain. Though a Belgian court later sentenced him to death for high treason, the Franco regime has continued to insist that no one by the name of Léon Degrelle lives in Spain...
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. The President urged a new federal law imposing the death penalty for war-related treason, sabotage and espionage and where death results from such serious federal offenses as skyjacking, kidnaping and assaulting a federal official. To meet the Supreme Court's objections to the arbitrary and capricious way death penalties have been meted out, Nixon laid down a meticulously detailed procedure. A jury would first decide guilt or innocence; then at a subsequent hearing, a judge and jury would consider whether there had been any mitigating circumstances or whether the crime had been particularly heinous. Where...
...National Awami Party who have got historical links with India on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other. I don't want to do the Yahya Khan bit [a reference to his predecessor, who had arrested Sheik Mujibur Rahman, now Prime Minister of Bangladesh, for treason]. I don't want to brand people as traitors or indulge in recriminations and spoil the atmosphere. I will proceed with political surgery...
...Crimson that Spring. The mass meetings held in Harvard Stadium occasioned some of the paper's most thorough reporting, and relations with the Administration deteriorated even more. For a generation of Crimson editors, the act of summoning riot-equipped police to the Harvard Yard stood as tantamount to treason...
...Fascism, his zany theories about usury and money (a modification of the labor theory of value) and finally, vicious anti-Semitic doggerel. War came. By 1941 Pound was making paid propaganda speeches in English from Rome. After the war, back in the U.S., he was charged with treason, and, starting at age 60, spent twelve years as a patient and prisoner in a mental hospital in Washington-a long punishment, whatever his offenses. His defenders claim that Pound was not mentally responsible for much of his collaboration with the enemy. The defense is only partially true. The sad and tragic...