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...believe the activities of John L. Lewis have entered the realm of treason. Nor is John Lewis a traitor to his Government alone. He has betrayed by his excesses the cause of union labor. . . . He has betrayed the spirit of democracy. . . . He has betrayed the belief of the American soldier that this would be a war in which individuals' interests would be sublimated to the common purpose...
...Labor Board came right out and said this week that John L. Lewis' defiance of the Government "gives aid and comfort to our enemies." The law has a word for giving aid & comfort to the enemy in time of war. The word is treason. If the Government meant what it said, its next step would be to place John L. Lewis under arrest...
...Bishop Laurenz Jaeger of Paderborn in Westphalia issued a pastoral letter warning their faithful against the Hitlerian campaign for more babies through forced marriages, or even no marriage at all. Noting a growth of free love, adultery and divorce, the prelates flatly denied the Nazi theory that virginity is "treason to the race," and attacked the Nazi teaching that "denies a great difference between men and animals...
...Congress officers, from pamphlets and articles. Some were clearly inflammatory: "Leave India to God; if that is too much, then leave her to anarchy. . . ." "If in spite of all precautions rioting does take place, it cannot be helped." But some of the statements which were cited as evidences of treason echoed slogans which have had a certain appeal in U.S. history: "Let every Indian consider himself to be a free man. . . ." "Victory or death would be the motto of every son and daughter of India. If we live we live as free...
Brought to trial for treason in South Africa (TIME, Dec. 28), Sydney Leibbrandt turned out to be a German agent, who arrived in a U-boat to organize sabotage and rebellion against Field Marshal Smuts's Government. Last week in Pretoria, at the end of the Union's longest treason trial, the judge asked sneer-faced Sydney if he wished to say anything. Up whipped Sydney's arm in a Nazi salute. Out whipped the words, in harsh Afrikaans: "Long live Adolf Hitler, long live National Socialist South Africa. I expected to die if I came back...