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...Manhattan last week to an audience of 3,500. His subject was the elaborate mock trial of Leon Trotsky, held in 13 sessions at Mexico City in March and April, at which Professor Dewey had presided. Object of the trial was to prove or disprove the accusations of treason, sabotage and fomenting world revolution hurled against absent Leon Trotsky during the last mass treason trial in Soviet Russia. Because he felt that the committee of professional liberals from the U. S. heading the trial was unduly influenced in Trotsky's favor, Author Carleton Beals, authority on Central America, resigned...
...minister, cabinet, judiciary, will be head of the defense forces, must pen his signature to bills passed by the legislature before they can become law. The President will not be answerable to the legislature, cannot be prosecuted for crimes civil or criminal, can be impeached only for ''treason or high crimes" by a two-thirds majority of the Senate. He will be advised by a council of state similar to Britain's Privy Council. Dubliners last week confidently expected Eamon de Valera to be the first to hold this powerful office...
...time Joseph Schaffner's recognition of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers was no less spectacular. Any dealings with unions were regarded, particularly in Chicago, as little short of treason. In 1910 the whole clothing trade was in the midst of bloody strikes, the Hart Schaffner & Marx workers being led by Sidney Hillman. With a sharp sense of the value of goodwill and a social conscience so precocious that even before the War he was speaking of the employer as the workers' trustee, Joseph Schaffner decided to experiment in industrial democracy...
...been at war," said a U. S. district judge in Washington last week to the only U. S. Naval officer ever accused of turning spy, "your acts would have been treason, punishable by the extreme penalty...
...death. Up to about four months ago, Comrade Radek lived in an elaborate penthouse, atop a new Bolshevik skyscraper, and was honored as the No. 1 journalist of the Communist world, writing daily in Stalin's official newsorgan Izvestia. That Radek should have confessed to high treason and blanket "Trotskyist" conspiracy against the Soviet Fatherland was too despicable, too foul, to be put adequately into words by even the most picturesque proletarian...