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...Retreat from Russia; ex-Leftist James Burnham's The Coming Defeat of Communism, which blueprinted a strategy for Western victory with the brilliant assurance of a man who could say "I was wrong" or "I told you so" with equal blandness. In a time when treason and charges of treason were becoming commonplace, Alistair Cooke's report on the Hiss-Chambers case, A Generation on Trial, was a conscientious and uncommonly well written courtroom report, but its title was a misnomer that suggested indulgence toward traitors...
...member of the Newsweek editorial staff, Ralph do Toledana has specialized in the study of two types of criminals; spies and traitors. His book, "Seeds of Treason," dezcribed the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers relationship...
...Burma government last week seemed to be looking for a graceful way to drop a hot potato, i.e., its prosecution for "high treason" of famed Burma Surgeon Gordon S. Seagrave (TIME...
Seagrave had originally been held under Burma's catchall Public Order Preservation Act. The complaint had later been changed to high treason to prevent him from winning temporary freedom under habeas corpus. His health had worsened in jail, and he had been moved to a comfortable private home under guard. When TIME Correspondent Jim Burke interviewed him last week, Seagrave had almost regained his normal health and spirits, but he was pale and looked all of his 53 years. His voice had stopped trembling, but his hands were stained from chain-smoking...
This week the special tribunal decided to try Seagrave on "reduced" treason charges under which no death penalty may be imposed, but which will subject him to banishment or a prison sentence if he is convicted. All along, Dr. Seagrave's greatest fear has been that he will be tossed out of the country and deprived of the work to which he has devoted his life...