TREASON IN THE UNITED STATES, Harvard law Review plus letters

[WWII TREASON CASE; JAPANESE-AMERICAN CITIZEN KAWAKITA; JAMES WILLARD HURST] HARVARD LAW REVIEW ON TREASON IN THE UNITED STATES [handwritten title on label on front cover of heavy manila binder for Harvard Law Review article disbound pages or offprints], bound in pages from three issues of Harvard Law Review with the issue's cover– (1) Volume 58, Number 2 [numbers in red ink], December 1944, Treason in the United States –1. Treason Down to the Constitution (a) Prior to the Revolution, etc. (to be continued), by Willard Hurst, pages 220-272, footnotes, (2) Volume 58, Number 3 [numbers in red], February 1945, Treason in the United States – II. The Constitution (a) General Policy: a Restrictive Definition, etc., (to be continued) by Willard Hurst, pages 395-444, footnotes, (3) Volume 58, Number 6 [numbers in red], Treason in the United States – Under the Constitution (a) General Policy, etc., by Willard Hurst, 1945, pages 806-853, footnotes…bound in following the issues are 4 letters in response to a Florida resident who had written requesting information on the Kawakita trial for treason – (a) from James L. Hupp, Dept. of Archives and History, State of West Virginia, Charleston, October 8, 1967, (b) 2 letters from James A. Haley, Congressman, 7th District, Florida, January 26, 1968, with attached 2-page typed report from Julia L. Sayles, Legislative Attorney, Library of Congress, referring to the Hurst articles and noting "our records indicate that Kawakita was born in the United States…traveled to Japan sometime prior to World War II [and was working there in a munitions factory where] the record indicates, he brutally beat American prisoners of war [hence, the basis for his trail for treason after the War], and Oct. 5, 1967, (c) from James T. McNally, Deputy Attorney General, California Department of Justice, on the legal case against "Tomoya Kawakita" and appeals, Oct. 5,1967; NOTES: JAMES WILLARD HURST, 1910-1997, widely credited as the founder of the modern field of American legal history. Educated at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1935, Hurst was a research assistant to Professor Felix Frankfurter, and later a law clerk to Justice Louis Brandeis (wikipedia); TOMOYA KAWAKITA, 1921-1993 (est.), convicted of treason and sentenced with execution…sentence was reduced to life imprisonment by president Eisenhower, with sentence commuted by Kennedy's attorney general on the condition that Kawakita be deported to Japan and never return to the U. S. (online sources) ///// CONDITION: near fine or better, negligible wear.