As the Democratic candidate, William Jennings Bryan, clashed with the Republican incumbent over imperialism, which the Democrats called "the paramount issue," critics of the war had to defend themselves against accusations of having treasonously inspired the insurgency, prolonged the conflict, and betrayed American soldiers.
A few days after a secret meeting of the National Defense Committee, Christian Fouchet told Mendes-France he possessed a resume of those vitally secret talks, which had been treasonously prepared for the use of the French Communist Party, but, according to Paris papers, he refused to tell his Premier who had given him this document.
In "The Naked Communist," a lengthy primer published in 1958, he enlivened a survey of the worldwide leftist threat with outlandish claims, writing that F.D.R.'s adviser Harry Hopkins had treasonously delivered to the Soviets a large supply of uranium, and that the Russians built the first Sputnik with plans stolen from the United States.
The three ageing musketeers – Athos (John Malkovich, Porthos Gerard Depardieu and Aramis Jeremy Ironsrons) – loiter around the edges, grumbling treasonously about replacing the king.
The best efforts of the infamous people's court run by Judge Roland Freisler could not prove Moltke's involvement, but in January 1945, he was sentenced to death anyway – for treasonously daring to think aloud about a post-Hitler future.
By Janet Flanner The New Yorker, October 9, 1954 P. 158 A few days after a secret meeting of the National Defense Committee, Christian Fouchet told Mendes-France he possessed a resume of those vitally secret talks, which had been treasonously prepared for the use of the French Communist Party, but, according to Paris papers, he refused to tell his Premier who had given him this document.
Some claimed the Truman administration had treasonously handed China over to the Communists in 1949.
The "People's Mujahedeen," a communist group, broke with the ayatollahs decades ago and treasonously set up shop under Saddam's protection in Iraq.
So did Senator Edward M. Kennedy's red-faced suggestions that Mr. Ashcroft had spoken treasonously, or something close to it, in arguing that citizens needed firearms to defend themselves against a potentially tyrannical central government.
