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...IDAF was founded in 1956 to help defend 156 Black South Africans accused of treason. Its primary driving force in those days was an English clergyman, Canon L. John Collins, who raised funds in his country and elsewhere to pay for defense lawyers and to support the families of those on trial. In 1961, after one of the longest trials in South African history, all 156 Blacks were acquitted, largely thanks to the efforts of the IDAF...
...Cromwell"). Standing near the doorway of the House of Burgesses was Thomas Jefferson, then a 22-year-old law student. He listened as the passionate Henry paused before mentioning the name of the British King ("Let George the Third profit by their example"), then heard the cries of "Treason!" that reverberated through the colonies. While Thatcher could ponder her myopic forebears, Mitterrand could indulge a Francophile chuckle. On the fateful day that Henry spoke, there was a still unidentified spy from the French government among the listeners. He reported the British predicament to Paris in accurate detail...
...largely toothless group. On TV broadcasts videotaped in jail, glum leaders of Iran's Tudeh Communist Party confessed, one by one, to being Soviet spies. Haggard and morose, First Secretary Nureddin Kianuri conceded that since its inception in 1941, the party had been "an instrument of espionage and treason," and added that he had been spying for Moscow since 1945. After seven colleagues elaborated on the details of their treachery, Ali Amou'i, a ranking Central Committee member, warned Iranian youths not to follow his example and calmly declared the dissolution of the entire Tudeh Party. Then, heaping...
Fakes have set complex historical forces dancing. Anti-Semitic officers high in the French military fabricated evidence that Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew, passed sensitive information to the Germans and Italians. Convicted of treason in 1894 and sentenced to Devil's Island for life, Dreyfus had to endure a ceremony in which his sword was broken and the insignia stripped from his uniform. One shocked witness was Theodor Herzl, a Jewish journalist covering the trial for a Vienna newspaper. Herzl embarked on a train of thought that would result in the writing of Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State...
...them women and children, down the mountains and through the line of battle. The group made it. Eleni did not. On the eve of the flight, she was ordered to harvest wheat under guerrilla supervision in fields miles away. When the escape was discovered, she was tortured, "tried" for treason, and denounced by neighbors who had envied her few pitiful "riches" from America. Then she was shot. Her last words were the cry "My children...