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...throw you out with the slops!" In the capital of a Communist State such Capitalist carryings on are "intolerable," as the Government Press remarked last week. Unfortunately they were made possible by the late, great Lenin and for a Bolshevik to criticize his acts or decisions is well-nigh treason. During the lean years after the Revolution it was decreed under the NEP policy of Dictator Lenin that houses in Moscow which had fallen into disrepair might be granted as "private possessions" to any Russians willing to put them in good repair at their own expense. In theory such houses...
...protagonist of France's most notorious cause cèleébre; after long illness (uremia); in Paris. In 1894 Captain Dreyfus, 35, first Jew on the French General Staff, was arrested on a charge of selling military secrets to Germany. Court-martialed, he was convicted of high treason on the basis of a secret dossier, which was later proved a forgery, and other scant evidence including the testimony of famed Handwriting Expert Alphonse Bertillon. Publicly degraded, Dreyfus was sentenced to Devil's Island for life. When it became apparent that Dreyfus had been shamelessly railroaded, Novelist Emile...
Organized by Communists and Socialists, on April 12, 175,000 U. S. students struck, declaring the peacetime treason that they would never uphold the U. S. Government in any war. The U. of C. Strike Committee, when it marched in the Communist parade May 30th, printed the statement that it represents 2,700 students on the U. of C. campus...
...Nazi prosecutor this was treason and worse. "You started your letter: 'Let God's grace be with us,' " cried he. "How did you dare commit such blasphemies to cover up common smuggling? I have not seen anything to equal it even in cases of Jewish and Galician grafters...
...More's head went for a different purpose. Becoming Chancellor of England in 1529, this pious Catholic scholar and lawyer opposed Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon, his plan to make himself head of the English church. Gentle Sir Thomas was tried, condemned and executed for treason in 1535. His head was parboiled, exposed on London bridge and would have been thrown into the Thames had not his daughter rescued...