Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture, shows that he deserves a better one. As a French industrialist who stays in Paris to collaborate with the Nazis, he has moments in which he almost makes the picture seem important. But the film, which starts as if it were going to be a portrait of a traitor, soon becomes just another melodrama...
Jarred by outside criticism, the British in India repeated their charges that Gandhi was a screwball pacifist at best, a traitor at worst. They claimed that, having governed India for 168 years, they were better prepared to meet India's present crisis than well-meaning intruders. They asked how, with a Japanese invasion threatened, immediate Indian independence could be granted when the Indians could not agree among themselves? This was a valid point, but twistable...
While gullibles rolled their eyes, responsible Negroes hoped such claptrap would not find fertile soil. Said Mr. U. S. Falls, vice president of the National Negro Business League: "America need have no fear of the Negro turning traitor if the true principles of democracy are applied to us as to every other minority group...
...British clung to the contention that Mohandas K. Gandhi was a pacifist traitor, an irrational screwball and a menace to India's safety. The Raj would not admit that the plan to crush Gandhi's threatened civil-disobedience campaign by suppressing the National Congress party was a monumental failure...
...long as I can remember he was carrying the torch for the U.S.A. . . . After the Japs bombed Hawaii . . . he tried to enlist but was told that he was too old. . . . It is true that my father has from time to time criticized the Administration. Does that make him a traitor? . . . If that is so we have lost our democracy before we have begun to fight...