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Lampy has his Ibis, the Advocate its Pegasus and the CRIMSON its .... (above). If this be treason, then make the most...
...Iran's new hour of suspense, the big question was what should be done with Mohammed Mossadegh. The Shah and his ministers dared not let him go free to stir Iran once more to rebellion, and chaos. They also feared to execute him for treason, and thus give him a martyr's crown. They even worried that a public trial would give the old wizard a stage from which to work his spell on Teheran's easily swayed street mobs. Mossadegh, after all his years at the game of plot, imprisonment and exile, knew too well...
...with that France brought to an end a prison more infamous than any crime it had ever punished. From the day it was founded in 1854, some 70,000 Frenchmen were sent out to its noisome stockades in expiation of crimes ranging from robbery to murder and high treason. Hardly more than 2,000 ever returned...
...days later, the 33-man Presidium of the Supreme Soviet met, formally removed Beria from his state and ministerial jobs, and ordered him to trial before the Soviet supreme court. The charge: treason...
RELIGION: "We must be patient in this matter, and I will not tolerate forcible measures." (Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty is in the fifth year of his lifelong prison term on charges of treason...