Word: collaborationist
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...London, Serge Lifar had two strikes against him. He had had a bad wartime record-he put on shows for Wehrmacht officers during the occupation, and had been jailed as a collaborationist. Then, probably because he thinks of himself as the one man who can fill Nijinsky's pink tights, he had chosen to appear in the narcissistic Afternoon of a Faun, the ballet which combines almost everything that most non-balletomanes dislike about ballet...
...come, too, to sell Manuel Roxas, and unsell the notion, widely propagated by U.S. Communists and proCommunists, that he carried a collaborationist taint from serving in a Jap puppet government. With him he brought the testimonial of General Douglas MacArthur, who said "consistently anti-Japanese . . . during . . . Bataan and Corregidor. . . . One of my most trusted and devoted officers." Then U.S. Navy Commander Charles ("Chick") Parsons gave conclusive evidence of Roxas' loyalty. He told of submarine trips he had made to contact Roxas during the Japanese occupation and to appoint him ringleader of U.S. espionage...
...Pacifist Giono was soon released from jail and allowed to go on with his writing. According to some, he became a collaborationist, a spokesman for Vichy and Pétain. According to others he worked with the Underground. Many Frenchmen regard his politics as still suspect. Says he in Blue Boy (1932): "There is no glory in being French. There is only one glory: in being alive...
...best thing about Yes is its hard, humorous understanding and worldly wisdom. Playwright Stein ridicules rather than berates the Pétainists, particularly when they try at the end to come over to the winning side. Notably Gallic is her mention of the collaborationist shopkeeper who was dead sure the Germans would win but had kept his assortment of little French, British and U.S. flags-just in case. Miss Stein jabs at obedience ("Obedient people must sooner or later follow a bad leader") and at discipline ("It is the unsuccessful people in the world who want to discipline everybody...
Macao rumor had it that he was sought by both the Chinese Central Government and the Communists as a collaborationist and profiteer. Despite the ransom note, many wondered whether the snatch at Kuan Yin Temple was for profit or politics-or both. At week's end the kidnappers upped the price to six piculs...