Word: collaborationist
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...Hardy & Hunted." In Egypt Maclean joined the S.A.S. (Special Air Service), a select, hand-picked force of parachute commandos who were dropped into the North African desert to destroy enemy installations. In 1942, Maclean, by then a captain, was sent to Persia, where in broad daylight he kidnaped Collaborationist General Zahidi and popped him into a plane bound for Palestine. It was ro wonder that when Prime Minister Churchill asked for the appointment of "a daring Ambassador-leader" to contact Tito's "hardy and hunted guerrillas," the choice fell on parachuting Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean...
Jean Luchaire became the "fiihrer" of the French collaborationist press, sent his son into the German army, his brother into the SS. For Corinne's affections, there existed no national (and scarcely any numerical) boundary. She gave birth to the daughter of a Luftwaffe captain. Abetz turned to other mistresses. With the last of them, a tall, dressy French art student, he was arrested in October 1945 in occupied Germany...
Died. Sidi Mohamed al-Moncef, 67, mustachioed onetime Bey of Tunis (1942-43), who was deposed as a collaborationist by General Giraud after the North African landings; in Pau, France, where he had been under house arrest since...
...over breweries, the movie industry, the national soccer team, the table-tennis association. Even the Boy Scouts had an action committee. All public officials suspected of being anti-Communist were dismissed. The director and chief physician of the state prison in Mlada Boleslav were removed and punished "for overfeeding collaborationist prisoners...
...accused of being a collaborationist because he had sold Hermann Göring a priceless Vermeer. Van Meegeren pleaded guilty to forging the picture: instead of trafficking with the enemy, he had tricked him. And Göring, had been only one of his victims : Van Meegeren confessed that six "Vermeers" and several "Pieter de Hoochs" lining the Palace of Justice walls were really the work of his hand. Last week Forger Van Meegeren was sentenced to a year in jail...