Word: treasons
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...told Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in a hoarse, faint voice. "I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb . . . has already caused the Communist aggression in Korea . . . and who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason...
Heaven only knows what the committee hopes to gain by such legislation. It states that some of the group examined the Maryland law in action. Surely these men, at least, know that real subversion is not stopped by this kind of law: the man who will actually commit treason and sabotage will not wince at having to tell a lie on his loyalty oath blank. By letting the state control thought, by damning all "left-wing" groups together, the law itself subverts the entire way of life which we are now struggling to preserve and spread...
...Department, and, for a moment of front-page eminence, secretary general to the San Francisco founding convention of the United Nations. But he had never been so noteworthy in his public life as he had in his ultimate disgrace, when ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers exposed Hiss's treason...
...with the Orthodox Church, the Czar pronounced him insane, ordered him committed to an asylum. After a series of special treatments, the man confessed that the Czar was right, he was indeed insane-a story that might, with a twist or two, have come straight out of the Moscow treason trials or out of Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon...
Uselessness is one of these drawbacks. H. 426 would permit the Attorney General to investigate any group for possible subversive activities, and would declare teaching or advocating treason or the violent overthrew of the government illegal. However, this does not offer any new way of discovering actual conspirers, which are adequately covered already, what it does is deprive the Communists of a place on the ballot, which would not be much of a loss to them. In fact, the party would gain a strong propaganda point...