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...officials abroad used to deny that they knew anything about the fugitive or declare that he was a person of no importance whatever. Meanwhile, the local Communist press reported that he was a thief, a blackmailer, a spy, etc. This time, the Russian Government charged Alexeev with embezzlement and treason, demanded that the U.S. Government turn him over for trial in Russia. This concern led observers to conclude that Fugitive Alexeev was a somewhat bigger bug than he himself had admitted, and that his comments on Soviet life and notables might prove interesting...
Back in the cabin, pretty Hostess Vina K. Ferguson moved up & down the aisle, settling the passengers for the night. She checked the seating list. The bald, bespectacled Frenchman nodding in his seat was Pierre N. Dreyfus, son of the late Captain Alfred Dreyfus whose false conviction for treason to France outraged the world 52 years ago. The older man was Herman Koegel, native of Rudnik, Poland. In New York his wife and daughter waited for their first reunion since the Gestapo snatched him from them and his small business in Köpenick, Germany, one night...
From Germany, and in the Army's custody, a couple of almost forgotten ex-newspapermen arrived in Washington, D.C. : for wartime broadcasts from Berlin, roly-poly Robert H. Best and hawklike Douglas Chandler were finally to be tried for treason...
Before the Slovak National Court in Bratislava came Father Josef Tiso, a man long cheated of his proper niche in history. Scrupulous justice would have made Tiso's name (and not that of Johnny-come-lately Vidkun Quisling) a worldwide synonym for treason...
...Roman Catholic priesthood, fat, bullet-headed Josef Tiso had successively sold out the Slovaks to the Austrians and Hungarians, and then helped sell out the Czechoslovak Republic to the Nazis. In 1939, he became the first puppet President of a subjugated nation. To the court opening his trial for treason, Tiso explained that he held the puppet presidency of Slovakia only to safeguard Slovak interests. This didn't much impress Slovaks with long memories, nor did it impress the Vatican, which has said no single word in Tiso's behalf...