Word: treasons
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...Shall Speak for Me?" The elections which Nationalist China held, like the Chinese military situation, left much to be desired. All men & women 21 and over, literate or illiterate, were eligible to vote, provided they had never been convicted of treason, political corruption or opium smoking. But since the election was the first of its kind in Chinese history, and since no polls were open in Communist areas, the turnout was rather small. Finally, since more than 95% of the Chinese people can neither read nor write, many a voter had to accept help in marking his ballot from friendly...
...insisted, "are a sterile business. When the artist permits the mood of the spectator to take full control he abdicates his function. But my abstractions are projections of reality." Among the more obvious "projections": a Mutilated House which looked like a cement block oozing blood, and The Face of Treason, a successfully nauseating tapioca of eyes in space...
...forced Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy into exile. In Rumania, they jailed Juliu Maniu, 74-year-old leader of the liberal Peasant Party. In Poland, Peasant Party Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk is expected to be in jail by Christmas (TIME, Sept. 22). In Albania, they fabricated an Anglo-American-inspired treason plot to justify death sentences for 16 opponents...
...Bulgaria last week the Communist-dominated Government silenced democratic opposition by hanging Nikola Petkoff after his conviction on trumped-up treason charges. Petkoff, leader of the democratic Agrarian Party, was a patriot. He fought the Nazis and spent part of the war behind German barbed wire. After the Russians put the small Bulgarian Communist Party in power, Petkoff opposed the Communists led by the old Comintern agent, Georgi Dimitroff, hero of the Reichstag-fire trial...
Said Tran Nocg Danh, Viet Nam's unrecognized envoy to Paris: "If he negotiates with the French without the consent of his Government, he will be tried for treason...