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Ezra Pound, Idaho-born expatriate poet, scholar and cantankerous crackpot, opponent of "the God-damned system that makes one war after another," arrived in Washington to be tried for treason (pro-Axis broadcasts from Italy). "Does anyone have the faintest idea what I actually said in Rome?" he asked. "Get over the idea that I betrayed anybody...
...cold, rainy morning in the reign of Mary Tudor, an official barge swept up to the landing stage of the Tower of London. Out stepped 20-year-old Elizabeth, Queen Mary's red-haired half-sister, who had just been arrested on suspicion of treason. At sight of the terrible Tower, where her luckless mother, Queen Anne Boleyn, had lost her head, the Lady Elizabeth's legs sank under her, and she fell weeping on the wet stones. Then she pulled herself together and walked into the prison with her head held high...
...Political prisoners, except those convicted of treason, will be released. Communists have been invited to submit their list of candidates for release...
...small, oak-paneled room of London's Old Bailey, the chief criminal court in England, Joyce strode to the dock, bowed jerkily to the red-robed presiding justice, Sir Frederick Tucker, and sat down in a straight-backed chair. The charge against him was treason: that he had "adhered to the King's enemies" by broadcasting propaganda from Germany. A clerk asked him how he pleaded. The prisoner's reply rang out: "Not guilty...
...shrilly defended his collaboration, swore that he had been loyal to the Republic. The People's Court in Prague heard him patiently, weighed his words against his deeds: persecution of Jews, jailing of students, Germanizing of Czechs, toadying to Hitler. Then it sentenced him to death for high treason...