Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Willing Men. The point missed by most critics, says Langer, is that Vichy was not simply Pétain, Darlan and Laval. They got the headlines, but "at all times [were] more than counterbalanced" by other Vichyites, mostly nameless, who were loyal Frenchmen at the least, and at most, zealously pro-Ally. Example: as early as spring 1941 the Deuxième Bureau (intelligence service) secretly agreed to send military reports to the U.S. Army in Washington, right under Vichy Ambassador Henry-Haye's nose. According to U.S. diplomats at Vichy, French officialdom was 85% on the Allied side...
...federal job. It was a wise and liberal provision in days when the radical fringe consisted of nothing more horrendous than the Greenback National and Prohibition parties. It remained valid during the rise & fall of the Populist, Progressive, Bull Moose and Socialist-Labor movements. Their adherents were loyal to the U.S. first, to their party second-and never to a foreign government. Not until 1939 was the rule amended, to bar those who seek to overthrow the U.S. Government...
Both the Commission's report and the President's order were carefully drawn. Still, it was by no means certain that they would achieve their purpose: "Protection . . . against infiltration of disloyal persons into the ranks of [U.S.] employees, and equal protection from unfounded accusations of disloyalty [for] loyal employees...
Although the necessity of securing a loyal administration is of unquestionable importance, the current plan draws the bit too tight by offering a system that begins and ends at the discretion of the Attorney-General and his advisers. Unless the government exercises the utmost moderation in the execution of the loyalty tests, the abuses inherent in the plan will go far to destroy an ideology while trying to protect it. Before the Attorney-General unwittingly sets off a modern version of the Salem witch hunts, he would do well to consider the fiasco that culminated in the Sacco-Vanzetti case...
...almost like the old days when Howie Morenz roamed the ice, and the loyal hockey fans, who called themselves les millionaires, sat in the Montreal Forum's cheap seats, wearing white woolen caps, drinking whiskey blanc and chanting piously, "Les Canadiens sont là" (The Canadiens are right in there). Now the cheap seats had gone and with them les millionaires, but Montreal showed last week that it still knew how to encourage its heroes...