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Government to ease the situation. . . . Just as in California, they have been forcibly evacuated even though not one of them has committed any acts of treason or sabotage...
...Questions. Few who read further than the headlines supposed that any of those arrested were guilty of actual treason; they had perhaps been trying to force the Government's hand in China, as all Communists, as well as their friends -conscious and unconscious-have long been trying to do. The question at issue seemed to be: how far can a journalist go in divulging official secrets? Top Washington newsmen, who are constantly digging for "confidential" information, began to wonder where they stood. At his press conference, Secretary Grew admitted that the State Department often classifies material "top secret...
...British had caught William Joyce, alias Lord Haw Haw, the Humbug of Hamburg, and they knew exactly what to do with him. He stood accused of one of the oldest crimes known to man: treason...
...cell was ready & waiting in London's Old Bailey. In the old days, a man convicted of treason would have been dragged behind a horse to the scaffold, hanged, disembowelled, beheaded and quartered. Now, after due trial, he would simply be taken to the Tower and hanged...
Ezra Pound, brick-bearded expatriot facing a U.S. treason charge for broadcasting Fascist propaganda from Italy, debated what poetic justice should be in his case, finally concluded: "Well, if I ain't worth more alive than dead, that's that. If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinion, either his opinions are no good or he's no good...