Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guilt by Association." Tom Clark prefaced his cautious listing with a warning: "It is entirely possible that many persons belonging to such organizations may be loyal to the United States. Guilt by association has never been one of the principles of American jurisprudence." Editorialized the New York Times: "Guilt by association is certainly implied. . . . The Government will be on safer ground, well within the principles of the Bill of Rights, if it gives every organization . . . a public day in court...
...outcome of these prevalent anti-Harvard sentiments is the development of popular and unfavorable misconceptions of the University to salve the wounded pride of the ever-loyal matriculant, past, present, and future...
...Repentant. There were other children of treason. Says Author West: "The children "who go from their homes with strangers because they have been given cakes and sweets are unsustained by pride when the unkindness falls on them. They know well that they have done wrong. A person should be loyal to his father and mother, to his brothers and sisters, to his friends, to his town or village, to his province, to his country; and a person should do nothing for a bribe, even if it takes the form of a promise that he should live instead...
Biography of Betrayal. The facts in the life of William Joyce were neither clear nor simple, but their meaning was. He had been born in Brooklyn, N.Y. (an important part of his defense was that he was not a British subject). His parents were Irish. They were loyal to England. When Ireland became Eire, they were forced to emigrate to Britain. Joyce's father was suspected of being a British informer. William Joyce claimed that he had done intelligence work for the Black & Tans...
...Joyces did not prosper in the land to which they had remained loyal and which did not reward their loyalty. But young Joyce graduated from the University of London, where he was an excellent student. He became a highly successful tutor. His love for England was intense-"such a love as led him in afterlife habitually to make a demand-which struck many of his English acquaintances as a sign of insanity-that any quiet social evening he spent with his friends should end with the singing of the national anthem...