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...Keller announced the winners of the 1950 Christopher Awards -five prizes of $5,000 each, for books and movie scripts that are "at the same time entertaining, artistic, and inspirational." The $15,000 first prize in 1949 went to an Episcopalian-Architect George Howe, for his novel, Call It Treason. Of the eight award winners this year only two were Catholic...
...taken long ago, President Truman appointed a nine-member citizens' commission to examine the whole thorny question of subversion and loyalty in a free society. Said the President: "We must be sure that our laws and procedures at home are adequate...to preserve our national security against treason, espionage, sabotage and other subversive acts...At the same time, we are concerned lest the measures taken to protect us from these dangers infringe the liberties guaranteed by our Constitution and stifle the atmosphere of freedom...
Three months ago famed Medical Missionary Dr. Gordon S. (Burma Surgeon) Seagrave entered Rangoon's red-and-cream brick high court to stand trial for treason. Last week a crowd gathered to hear the verdict. Dr. Seagrave was brought into court from a comfortable U.S. Embassy bungalow, where he was allowed to stay after he became ill in Rangoon's crowded, noisy jail...
...talented Alfred Redl had one terrible weakness: he was a homosexual. Russian agents contrived a trap and caught him one day; then they threatened to expose him unless he turned traitor. Redl turned, for eleven years served Russia as a master spy-within-a-spy. The extent of his treason was discovered after war broke out in 1914: Russia knew the Austro-Hungarian and German war plans. Two fellow officers visited Alfred Redl one night, left him a loaded pistol. Alfred Redl took the hint, stood before a mirror and fired a bullet through his brain...
...enfold himself in the Fifth Amendment, which provides that no one in a criminal case is required to be a witness against himself. As precedent, Justice Black recalled Chief Justice John Marshall's famed ruling in 1807 reaffirming this guarantee of the Fifth Amendment in the Aaron Burr treason trial. From Mr. Burr to Mrs. Blau the constitutional line was clear...