Word: treasons
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...tumbril but in a Black Maria, Henri Philippe Pétain, 89, hero of Verdun, Marshal of France and chief of the late Vichy Government, rode to one of history's great trials-his own, for high treason. With him rode the France of 1940 to be judged by the France...
Mumbled Léon Blum, 73, Socialist Premier of France's Popular Front Government (1936-37): "The Marshal . . . used his personality . . . and his prestige to lead France into shame. ... I call that treason." (Twice Léon Blum broke down and cried. The Marshal, who once tried Blum for war guilt at Riom, eyed him without visible emotion...
Died. Harold Norman Denny, 56, able, longtime roving correspondent for the New York Times in five wars (Morocco, 1926; Nicaragua, 1928; Ethiopia, 1935; Finland. 1939; World War II) and one insurrection (Cuba, 1930), who earned a diplomatic protest from Russia by his candid coverage of the 1936-38 Soviet treason trials; of a heart attack; in Des Moines, Iowa. Captured in Libya in 1941 and imprisoned for six months, he later followed the First Army from the Normandy beachheads to the union with the Russians. His advice to war reporters: "A dead correspondent sends no dispatches...
...William ("Lord Haw Haw of Hamburg") Joyce, 39. For the purpose, a British statute nearly six centuries old was dusted off. Joyce, charged the Court, "adhered to the King's enemies elsewhere than in the King's realm, to wit, in the German realm contrary to the Treason...
With his shaved head showing only grey fuzz, his scarred face pale, Joyce stood stiffly erect in the dock, murmured: "I have heard the charge and take cognizance of it." He was also cognizant that the penalty for treason is death. Joyce had been poorly paid by the Nazis for his treasonable broadcasts, was now penniless. Under the Poor Prisoners' Defence Act, he was certified as entitled to free defense counsel. Then he was whisked to Brixton Prison in a Black Maria. On arrival, he had said: "So this is Brixton." "Yes," snapped his guard, "not Belsen...