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With these trumps the Swiss last week continued confidently but soberly to do what no other small nation in Europe could do: run Switzerland as the Swiss thought it should be run. Seven soldiers of the Swiss Army were sentenced to death for treason -first death sentences for military espionage in Swiss history-despite dire warnings from the Swiss Nazi Die Front that "first shots can be dangerous." In Zurich, filmgoers stood and applauded Mrs. Miniver, which critics hailed as "a touching document of democratic courage." Swiss censorship banned Goebbels' weekly Das Reich because it printed a distasteful caricature...
CHICAGO--Three German-American men were sentenced today to death on chargea of aiding a Nazi saboteur who already has been executed and the wives of the three were sentenced to 25 years in prison for the crime of treason which the court described as "the most iniquitous offense in the unholy list of crimes...
...Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them aid and comfort...
...small, imitation-marble pillared Federal courtroom in Chicago last week, six closely guarded naturalized U.S. citizens, German-born, went on trial for treason. By week's end the jury (nine housewives, three men) and a handful of spectators had heard the first grim chapters of a story that might well have come from the mind of a dime novelist...
LONDON--Gen. Charles De Gaulle, leader of the Fighting French, announced by radio tonight that the moment has come for French patriots to "revolt against their leaders of treason" and he urged those in the homeland to begin by resisting attempts to force them into German labor service...