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...first colonel, who showed me the gift and art of command," says Charles de Gaulle in his memoirs, and he sorrowed in 1945 when Marshal Henri Pétain, hero of Verdun, was found guilty of treason for his chieftaincy of the pro-Nazi Vichy regime. De Gaulle commuted the old man's death sentence to life imprisonment. Now, 13 years after Pétain's death and burial on the Ile d'Yeu in the Bay of Biscay, the French press is alive with rumors that De Gaulle may accede to Pétain...
...behalf of two more accused Soviet spies facing trial in Newark-and the Government duly cooperated. Fact is, the law is hardly a new discovery. Last revised in 1958, it is plain as day in the U.S. Code, Title 18, Section 3432, which reads: "A person charged with treason or other capital offense shall at least three entire days before commencement of trial be furnished with a copy of the indictment and a list of the veniremen, and of the witnesses to be produced on the trial for proving the indictment, stating the place of abode of each venireman...
Stormer None Dars Call it Treason...
Stormer None Dare Call It Treason...
...during the day to work and see their families (similar to systems long used in other countries, notably Sweden). On the other hand, Bennett's tolerance stops at the death penalty. Unlike other reformers, he wants it kept on the books for particularly heinous crimes, such as high treason, murder for hire and airplane bombings...