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...After the war, by then a Cardinal and the nation's highest-ranking bishop. Mindszenty fought the encroachments of Communism, marshaling Catholics in massive demonstrations. His arrest on the day after Christmas in 1948 was hardly a surprise. Then came the trial, on trumped-up charges of treason, spying and black-marketeering, of a man who had obviously been tortured to his physical and mental limits. He was sentenced to death-a sentence that was commuted to life imprisonment and later, in 1955, to house arrest...
...however, put a stop to Mary's education. During most of the war years she worked in a German hospital in Italy; when she returned home, she learned from her mother that Pound had been taken to an American "Disciplinary Training Center" near Pisa, where he was charged with treason for his broadcasts, and caged. He was not released from the American mental hospital where he had been interned on the eve of his trial until 13 years after his original arrest. Mary's own role in the international effort to free Pound was kept out of the lights...
...charges of Indian collusion were seen as a buildup for a jihad, a Moslem holy war, against predominantly Hindu India. New Delhi is also concerned over Yahya's casual declaration during a recent interview that Sheik Mujibur Rahman, the Awami League leader now awaiting trial for treason, "might not be alive" by October. Last week 467 members of India's Parliament sent an appeal to U Thant to secure Mujib's release...
Shortly afterward, the head of Sudan's Communist Party was also found guilty of treason. Abdel Khalek Mahgoub denied that he had advance knowledge of the plot. Again Numeiry stepped in to play prosecutor. He held up a sheet of paper listing Cabinet choices in a post-Numeiry government and asked Mahgoub if the handwriting were his. The Communist leader admitted that it was. The military court quickly found Mahgoub guilty of treason and hanged...
...greatest poet alive" lapsed into an aging crank, teasing out nutty monetary theories, making Fascist noises about "international Jewry" as "the true enemy," stuffing junk and glories into a multilingual magpie epic called The Cantos. During World War II he made pro-Axis broadcasts from Rome. Accused of treason and brought back to the U.S., he escaped trial when he was certified insane, but for the next twelve years was shut up in a madhouse. Now 85, he passes his time in Venice and Rapallo, an old bone singing...