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Last week a plane from Cuba took Captain Rodriguez, now a limp and broken man, to Madrid to face charges of grand larceny and high treason, which carries the maximum penalty of death...
Star witness in the seventh week of the treason trial of former Sergeant John David Provoo (TIME, Nov. 24) was 69-year-old General Jonathan M. Wainwright, called as witness for the defense. To the lawyer who was forced to shout his questions, Wainwright apologized and explained that he was nearly deaf as a result of shell bursts during the siege of Corregidor. After testifying that he had not known Provoo, nor had he received reports that the man had given aid & comfort to the enemy, the general gave the Manhattan jury a moving, 90-minute account of the defense...
Death Sentences imposed upon Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for their act of treason, will be presented on Wednesday, December 17 at 8:00 p.m. in Langdell Courtroom...
Slansky & Co. pleaded guilty to a standard list of crimes: high treason, conspiracy with non-Communist agents and spies, murder, espionage, sabotage, Titoism, Trotskyism. They also accused themselves of something new in Red purge trials: "Zionism," "Jewish bourgeois nationalism," "Jewish chauvinism." Slansky and ten others among the defendants are Jews...
...Rape. Grimly the judges ticked off the charges against Denise and her companions: treason (in the cases of all twelve French citizens), murder, espionage, association with criminals, and, here & there, a bit of rape. ". . . The Gestapo of Rue de la Pompe," intoned the court, "was . . . most infamous . . . The tragic figures can be translated thus: more than 300 arrests, 160 deportations to Germany, of whom 50 died in concentration camps, 40 shot...