Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was any doubt in anybody's mind that the great Kremlin apparat has ganged up to brand Tito once again as a dangerous heretic, that doubt vanished last week. The Chinese Communists, last to speak, piled in, throwing the roughest punches aimed at Tito since Stalin's Cominform war of 1948. Yugoslavia's latest program for "separate roads to socialism," said Peking's People's Daily, is "out-and-out revisionism"-a Communist dirty word for any deviation from Moscow's line-and "viciously slanders the socialist camp." Its "evolutionary views," said...
Appalling Reason. Some of the Hungarian Jews protested any deal that would give the Germans material helpful in fighting the war. Brand agreed with them. But the Germans promised a down payment of 100,000 living Jews, and he hoped he could keep negotiations dragging along until the approaching Allied victory closed all accounts. Thus, while the Nazis held his own family hostage, he made a desperate journey to neutral Turkey and the Middle East to get the negotiations started with Allied agents...
Though the U.S. was willing to support his stalling strategy, it was the British who balked even at discussing the grim bargain between Brand and his mortal enemies, and tried to hamstring his efforts to reach others. One appalling reason given by Brand: the British did not know where to put the Jews without increasing their quota for admission to Palestine. They also acted on the principle that blackmail is never paid off, that simply nothing can be gained by negotiating with monsters. First the war must be won, argued the British; then others must sweep up the bits...
...Brand's story, documented to the hilt of an SS dagger, should be required reading for those who cling to the notion that the human race is essentially a friendly society. One of the incidental ironies of the book is that when a government is totally corrupt and evil, as was that of the Nazi regime in Europe, financial venality is a mitigating virtue...
...asserting its youthfulness, and youth had to fight back to maintain its right to be young. Today, of course, every young man strives to gain maturity before his time. But when hearts were light in summer's season, youthfulness was at a premium, and carried no generation's brand. Common property, it had to be defended to be possessed...