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Baba and her friend have a private word-hysteria-for anything of which they disapprove. It is a word they use particularly often in reference to Americans. Yet Baba finds herself entranced by two Americans-Courtney and Alix Nichols, who betray the un-Indian heresy of being in love in the romantic Western pattern. Alix is also a recognizable U.S. type in that when Indian servants place a chair of honor for her, she insists on sitting on the ground. She will love the Indians, if it kills her-and them. Soon, of course, she is an expert on saris...
When a government tells this or that group that it is being shortchanged, then government can never give up its defense of those groups without seeming to betray them. This inevitably leads to an ever-increasing expansion of government powers. But if a government recognizes that the economy can and will provide prosperity for all, then it sees its economic function as one of repair and encouragement; it has no vested interest in getting bigger to fight for a cause. A two-way traffic in federal power develops. Government can give up functions, not merely take on new ones...
Novelist Llewellyn's version borrows from all these theories, and also differs from them. His disturbing explanation tells of men who betray their country for causes which may be emotionally deep but are intellectually frivolous...
...official report on the hearings, Lev "delivered defective material to the armed forces and made improper profits at the expense of the Government. His testimony was evasive and in a large part obviously false and untrue. By his reprehensible, amoral conduct, he corrupted and induced Government officials to betray their public trust...
...Oath: Picking candidates for election to the National Assembly, Poujade made them take an oath, "If I am elected I solemnly promise never to take a position on an issue which has not been approved by the Central National Committee. If I betray this oath I promise to submit my physical and moral person to the punishments reserved for traitors...