Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When it became apparent in Moscow that further blandishments would be futile, Ipatieff was expelled from the Academy and denounced as a traitor under articles Nos. 130 and 133 of the new Soviet Constitution. Last week the old scientist was grieved by news that his son, a Moscow chemistry teacher, had ridiculed his reasons for not returning, had "scathingly denounced" him. Dr. Ipatieff looked up the word "scathingly" in a Russian-English dictionary, sighed...
...poor leadership, I, as the commander-in-chief of the National Armed Forces, must hold myself responsible for the incident [his own kidnapping] which makes my heart ache. ... If I have any selfish motives or do anything against the welfare of the country then anybody may consider me a traitor and may shoot me. ... If my words and deeds are in the least insincere, if I neglect the ideals of our Revolution, my soldiers may treat me as their enemy and may also shoot me. ... As you, Chang Hsueh-liang, have rectified the mistake [kidnapping] at an early stage...
...earth, and the crags fall to ruin; and all fetters and bonds shall be broken and rent. . . . In this din shall the heavens be cloven, and the sons of Muspell ride thence: Sutr shall ride first and both before and after him burning fire." Leading the giants is the traitor Loki, holding a flame thrower, and Frey, who opposes him is swept by flames. Thor, the thunder god, rushes to the attack, wielding his mighty workman's hammer...
...health is quite good enough for him to go to Norway and receive the $40,000 which the Nobel Committee wants to give him as a slap at Dictatorship (TIME, Dec. 7), Nazi newsorgans stated firmly that Nazi doctors do not think Pacifist von Ossietzky, whom they call a "traitor to Germany," can leave the sanatorium to which he was hustled from a Nazi prison camp when he seemed about to get the Prize...
Unhappily the discord was already far advanced. The entire German Press had been thundering for days that the Nobel award to a "traitor" was an "insult" to Germany, hinted strongly that Der Führer might break off diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Haakon VII. In Oslo the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Dr. Halvdan Koht, had taken such precautions as he could. When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, of which he was a member, appeared likely to pick Carl von Ossietzky, Dr. Koht resigned from the committee. Into his office last week raged the German Minister to Sweden, Prince Viktor...