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...Bishops Kemper and Tuttle are worthy of sainthood, many a conscientious Episcopalian doubts the practicality of Bishop Welles's suggestion. Since the Reformation, the Anglican Communion has largely contented itself with the ancient saints of the church calendar. The most famous exception was King Charles I, charged with treason and beheaded by a provisional government under Cromwell in 1649. After the Resto ration the Church of England acclaimed him as a martyr for his unwillingness to renounce the Anglican faith, officially put his feast into the calendar of saints.-Nearest thing to a U.S. Episcopal saint is probably Samuel...
...shaken with Communists--though he wouldn't feel good about it. Would he have shaken with FDR even though Buckley thought he had betrayed us into the Second World War and sold us out at Yalta? Yes, said Buckley, because there was a difference between "subjective" and "objective" treason...
...measures more just. Congress is discussing the establishment of machinery to survey our entire loyalty-security policy in a comprehensive way which will have more regard for justice, liberty and security than previous policies have shown. There are now grounds for hope that the hounding of dissidence, innocent of treason, will come to a halt...
This section reads: "No subject ought, in any case or in any time, to be declared guilty of treason or felony by the Legislature...
Died. Brigadier General John Hartman Morgan, 79, British lawyer and top authority on constitutional law; at Wootton Bassett, England. General Morgan was legal adviser to the American War Crimes Commission at Nürnberg from 1947 to 1949, advised the prosecution in the postwar treason trial of Nazi Broadcaster William ("Lord Haw Haw") Joyce, which led to Joyce's hanging...