Word: treasons
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...fleeing Lumumba, he already was beyond remote Port Francqui, a steamboat stop on the Kasai River, 400 miles from Leopoldville. As angry crowds surrounded the Port Francqui police station shouting "Judas" and "Traitor," the soldiers wired their army boss to collect Lumumba immediately, or they would shoot him for treason. Sternly, Mobutu sent back word not to harm the prisoner and dispatched a plane to pick him up. "I cannot judge him. He must defend himself before the courts," explained Mobutu...
...Premier, who after the German invasion of his country in 1940 briefly headed a London government-in-exile, later returned to The Netherlands, where he spent the rest of the war, came close enough to collaborating with the Nazis to draw a one-year suspended prison sentence for high treason in 1947; in Soest...
...January. The men on trial at the Palais de Justice ranged from students and teachers to bankers and roughnecks. Politically, all were fanatic right-wingers who had in common an injured belief that their treason had been blessed in advance by high figures in De Gaulle's administration...
...when Churchill and Lindemann were allowed to examine Tizard's secret and desperate decision to start a crash program for the development of radar, Snow said. "Within half an hour," Lindemann and turned on his friend, declared that the high priority given radar was an act "equivalent to treason," and bitterly attacked the crash program...
...seize power, and Frenchmen must live in constant peril of a third attempt. On the left, the intellectuals and union leaders, both Catholic and Communist are calling for opposition to the government's war effort. In attempting to solidify his power, De Gaulle has unfortunately equated dissent with treason, and this seems desperate and futile...