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...Chamberlain in 1940 when he quoted in the House of Commons from Oliver Cromwell: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing ... In the name of God, go!" A lifelong imperialist, he lived to see his son John convicted and hanged for high treason in 1945 for broadcasting Nazi propaganda; his other son, Julian, Conservative M.P. since 1950, parachuted into occupied Albania in World War II, worked with partisans as a liaison officer...
...Amendment," first printed by the Fordham Law Review and now being distributed by the Fund for the Republic. Williams, onetime law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Taft, and general counsel for the Commerce Department in the Truman Administration, starts with John Marshall's 1807 ruling in the treason trial of Aaron Burr. Called as a witness was Burr's secretary, a Mr. Willie, who was asked if he had understood a cipher message purportedly written by Burr. Willie refused to answer the question, citing the Fifth Amendment and insisting that an answer would tend to incriminate...
...seating was rigged in favor of the French colons. Extremists organized a bloody rising in the eastern mountains last year. Moderate Nationalists might have worked for compromise, but the French outlawed the entire party and declared that because "Algeria is France," revolt on the soil of Algeria is treason. When Morocco's "Fateful Day" arrived a fortnight...
Colonialism Is Dead. The cause of the rouble is the crusade by Maroc-Presse or Moroccan autonomy. For two troubled years it has been telling fellow Frenchmen that colonialism is dead, that they must begin native self-government. To diehard French colonialists such an appeal amounts to treason, the betrayal of France to Moroccan nationalists...
Strained Conscience. Treason there was, but the traitor was not Dreyfus. As a Jew, he made an excellent scapegoat. Even after the high command learned that the real traitor was Major Count Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy, decadent scion of the aristocratic Hungarian family, they tried to cover up their mistake and even let Esterhazy keep his rank and assignment. Dreyfus' conviction touched off a wave of anti-Semitism that made it dangerous for anyone to doubt his guilt. But one general-staff officer, Lieut. Colonel Marie-Georges Picquart, found the truth more than his conscience could stand, although he cordially...