Word: expatriot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World War II produced a new kind of traitor-men who openly broadcast for the enemy, tried to undermine U.S. morale. Three were brought to trial. Expatriot Poet Ezra Pound was arrested in Italy, escaped conviction when he was pronounced insane. Chicago-born Douglas Chandler, the "American Lord Haw-Haw," was sentenced to life imprisonment. Last week, in Boston's Federal District Court, Robert H. Best, 52, was also sentenced to life and fined...
Ezra Pound, brick-bearded expatriot facing a U.S. treason charge for broadcasting Fascist propaganda from Italy, debated what poetic justice should be in his case, finally concluded: "Well, if I ain't worth more alive than dead, that's that. If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinion, either his opinions are no good or he's no good...
...self-expatriot Gertrude Stein will stick to her non-average business of writing non-intelligible prose and let the American soldier do his above-average fighting in a serious American way, the war will be won in a quicker-than-average time so that we can go back to making better-than-average plumbing for more-comfortable-than-average American homes where no esoteric Stein is read. J. N. CARR Lieutenant, U.S.N.R. E. F. PETERSON Lieutenant (j.g.), U.S.N.R. % F.P.O. New York City