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...Received from its Post Office and Civil Service Committee a bill to deny civil service pensions to Government workers who duck behind the Fifth Amendment, or who are convicted of perjury, bribery, graft, treason, or any other felony. The proposal arose from the case of Alger Hiss, who will get a federal pension at age 62 unless the bill is enacted...
Since 1943, Von Starhemberg has been holed up in Argentina-but for little good reason of late. Another Austrian court last year ruled that there were no grounds for trying him on charges of high treason...
...Essentially he's no investigator. He's a headline-maker." Johnny-Come-Lately. Woltman found that McCarthy makes headlines by "wild twisting of facts and near facts [which] repels authorities in the field." For his adversaries, McCarthy has a special technique that "consists of imputing [to them] treason, treasonable motives, plots and conspiracies . . . Those with whose decisions Mr. McCarthy disagrees are, in his book, in league with traitors." To prove his points, McCarthy has a "unique distortion technique: stating as facts a set of nonexisting circumstances, then repeating them as facts when challenged." Woltman himself has known McCarthy...
...Before the war I had, among others, many associations with left-wingers, including Communists . . . My position was, and is, that of a fighting liberal. I have often agreed with the Communists and often disagreed with them . . . My life has been dedicated to truth, justice and freedom. If this be treason, make the most...
...that point Sunde paled, complained: "Somebody has fixed the notes." Last week the court fixed Sunde: it found him guilty of espionage and treason, sentenced him to eight years in jail...