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...time being, at least, was firmly in the grasp of its new strong man, Major General Mohammed Naguib. An Egyptian army tribunal last week tried the 24-year-old ringleader of the rioters who set fire to Alexandria's textile mills (TIME, Aug. 25), found him guilty of treason. Sentence: death by hanging. Britain, apparently convinced that Naguib had come to stay, 1) lifted its 10-month-old embargo on the export of military equipment to Egypt, 2) invited Egyptian cadets to train in British military academies...
...High Treason. Spies v. Scotland Yard in a bang-up British melodrama (TIME...
...star of the Reichstag trial (1933), ex-Secretary General of the old Comintern, was the big man in Bulgaria's postwar days. Arriving from Moscow, he took over from homegrown Red Traicho Kostov, made Kostov his No. 2 man. Soon Kostov was accused of "anti-Sovietism," tried for treason. Persuaded to write a 32,000-word confession, at trial became the first major Communist defendant to repudiate a confession. Disposition: hanged. Dimitrov did not last either. Displeased with Dimitrov's own Titoist tendencies, the Kremlin called him to Moscow for "medical treatment." Final entry: dead of "liver ailment...
...wave of cold anger swept across doggedly neutral Sweden, which stayed out of World Wars I and II and now refuses to join Norway and Denmark in NATO. The anger was aggravated by an event in Stockholm: the opening of a treason trial against seven Swedes who are accused of selling out the secrets of Sweden's entire northern defense system to Soviet espionage agents. On the streets and in the coffeehouses, Swedes muttered their indignation. Prime Minister Tage Erlander summoned Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Rodionov. As he left his own embassy, a crowd of Swedes jeered at the ambassador...
...High Treason. Spies v. Scotland Yard in a bang-up British melodrama (TIME...