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When Ting Ling arrived at Chairman Mao's headquarters in Shensi province in 1934, she had all the right credentials: literary fame, a husband executed by the Central government for treason, a year in a Nationalist prison herself. Mao was so impressed that he promptly gave her a job (as vice chairman of a Red army guard unit), then proceeded to write a poem in praise both of Ting Ling and her new job, which by poetic license upgraded the job a bit. Sang Mao: "In the past a literary miss, she is now a General of Armies...
...Algeria's militant nationalists, this was high treason, and Ali Chekkal was warned that his days were numbered. He decided that it was wiser not to return to Algiers, settled in a Paris hotel under the eyes of a three-man bodyguard provided day and night by the French government...
This politeness was the keynote of the trial for treason in March 1953 of lean, handsome Playwright Henrique Galvao, a onetime captain in the Portuguese army whose loyal service in the cause of Salazar had earned him a high place in the nation's African colonial service. Few know precisely what brought about Galvao's downfall, beyond the fact that a series of charges laid by him against the colonial administration soon after he returned to Portugal to take a seat in the National Assembly led to the dismissal of one of Salazar's top colonial hands...
Most of the political prisoners released were accused of wartime treason and collaborating with the Germans, Berman was told. These steps are all part of the general Soviet program of liberalizing in some degree the harsh Stalinist penal system...
...French colons in Algeria such talk is treason. Close to the war, the colons are disgusted by the crise de conscience, say that the National Liberation Front, far from being anxious for a deal, is stepping up its terror campaign with the hope of making the French give up Algeria in despair...