Word: treasons
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...ignore the 93° heat and the potentially explosive bus boycott that Johannesburg Negroes had organized in protest against a fare rise. No one, however, could ignore the tension which emanated from the city drill hall, where 156 South Africans last week faced a court on charges of high treason-a trial which the London Economist likened to Hitler's notorious Reichstag fire trial...
...government had about using these weapons was suggested by the court summons issued last week to one of South Africa's most eminent citizens, Novelist Alan (Cry the Beloved Country) Paton. Paton's offense: he had spoken at a Negro rally to raise funds for the treason trial defendants without first obtaining official permission to attend a "non-European" gathering...
...accused, most of whom had been arrested in one big countrywide swoop early last month (TIME, Dec. 17), included 23 whites, 105 Negroes, 21 Asians and seven mixed-blood "coloreds." They were clergymen, doctors, lawyers, educators and trade unionists, and their real offense was not treason as it is understood in Anglo-Saxon law but bitter opposition to the apartheid racist policies of Premier Johannes Strydom. Under South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act. anyone who aims at "the encouragement of feelings of hostility between European and non-European" can be declared a Communist-and therefore, presumptively, a traitor...
...Sporting a red carnation in his lapel, Lausche stood while Senate Chaplain Frederick Brown Harris prayed that his charges be saved "from all compromise, which crucifies principle, and from all shoddy workmanship, which betrays the possible best, and from cowardly expediency, which is treason to the highest integrity." With the 33 other members beginning terms, he marched to the Senate well to be sworn in by the Vice President. Then came Lausche's moment. When Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson proposed that Arizona's venerable Carl Hayden be elected Senate President Pro Tempore, Republican Bill Knowland rose, offered...
...Librarian of Congress Archibald Mac-Leish, now a Harvard professor of literature, tipped his mortarboard-with reservations-to Fascist-embracing Poet Ezra Pound and his eleven latest Cantos, composed in the Washington hospital where Pound has spent eleven years as a mental patient, adjudged unfit to be tried for treason in 1945. MacLeish freely admits: "Some of his dissents have been merely strident: his raging at Roosevelt throughout the Cantos sounds as though it had been composed by Fulton Lewis Jr., and his attacks on Churchill and Leon Blum are in the vocabulary of the Nazi radio." To Poet MacLeish...