Word: martyrizing
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Czech undergraduates at historic Prague University were roused to fury last week as death came to their 22-year-old political martyr, Medical Student Jan Opletal. On Oct. 28 he went out to celebrate Czechoslovak "Independence Day" and was brought home with six revolver bullets in his body. Shouting "Long Live Freedom!" and "Away With the Murderers!" his mourners marched with torchlights to Vinohradsky Square...
...pulled off, as official Germany bitterly charged, by the British secret service? Probably not. Britain's intelligence officers are bright enough to know that assassinating Hitler would only serve to glorify him as a martyr...
Berlin papers took no consistent, officially inspired line. Most grumbled about the work of foreigners. None admitted the possibility of internal unrest, of underground revolt.* None capitalized on the martyr angle...
When he returned briefly and secretly to the U. S. in 1931 and betrayed his disillusion, a U. S. Communist told Fred Beal that the Russians should have shot him while they had him. When he returned for keeps in 1937, he was no longer a martyr to the Communists. Their International Labor Defense not only refused to aid Fred Beal but covertly discouraged all efforts to save him. He was arrested last year at his brother's home in Lawrence...
...recalling that Father Coughlin had turned down an invitation to talk on NBC's Town Meeting of the Air on "Americanism" last year, concluded that the radio pries disliked controversy, or-more likely-that ostracism from the major network was too precious a jewel to lose from a martyr's crown for half an hour's free time...