Word: treasons
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...General Karel Janousek, wartime commander of the Czech air force in Britain, was condemned to death for treason when he tried to flee the country. (The sentence was commuted to 18 years at hard labor.) Seventeen other Czech air force men managed to escape to Britain in a "borrowed" plane...
...threat to French security; in Germany they denounced France and her allies as a threat to German unity. In Germany they openly called for the return of the Eastern German territories ceded to Poland at war's end, and in Poland they denounced any such suggestion as high treason...
...Again." Captured by the British after the war's end, Best was brought back to the U.S. to stand trial for treason. When he was indicted in Boston, he ranted that the proceedings against him were part of a worldwide conspiracy against God and man, that he needed no other counsel than "the holy trinity of God: the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." Judge Francis J. W. Ford ordered a plea of not guilty entered...
...Treason charges against two other U.S. citizens who broadcast for the Nazis during the war were dropped by the U.S. last week. The case against Constance Drexel, 64 (no kin to the Philadelphia Drexels), was dismissed for lack of evidence; the indictment against Frederick W. Kaltenbach, onetime Dubuque, Iowa high-school teacher, was dismissed after Russian authorities notified the U.S. that he died in a Soviet concentration camp...
...without the dire consequences predicted by Ellenborough, gibbet and gallows were prescribed for fewer & fewer crimes. When murder was crossed off the list last week, only three capital crimes remained: high treason in time of war, piracy with violence, arson in dockyards...