Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arthur Kennedy) is made suspicious by the very conclusiveness of the case. There is not only shattering testimony against Cargill; there is his admission of guilt, and refusal to explain his actions. Time Limit! being a thriller, it would be unfair to reveal more than that Cargill had turned traitor from decent motives; had been, indeed, on the horns of a lacerating dilemma...
...document the Statistical Section did recognize as the work of a bona fide traitor was a list of French military secrets that it ran across in September 1894. Historian Chapman ably retells the story of how, with a few slipshod handwriting comparisons, a War Office clique decided that studious, impersonable. wealthy and unpopular Captain Alfred Dreyfus was the logical culprit. Author Chapman argues that Dreyfus' court-martial and imprisonment at Devil's Island were mostly a tragedy of honest errors, not a conspiracy of racial malice...
...several months, rumors that the Chinese Nationalists and the Red Chinese were about to get together have swept the Far East. The rumors suited the Chinese Reds fine. Premier Chou Enlai, in private talks with foreign visitors, no longer talked of "traitor" Chiang Kai-shek and his "clique," but indicated blandly that he would welcome negotiations with Chiang himself. He even hinted that Chiang Kai-shek would be offered the title of marshal if only he would give...
...that he was laboring under some kind of perverted patriotism or pique. In 1944 John had been a member of the famous Von Stauffenberg conspiracy to kill Hitler. When the plot failed, John's brother was shot; John himself fled to England. Many Germans regarded John as a traitor for joining the British when Germany was fighting for her life. The U.S. and West German intelligence agencies did not trust him. Largely at British insistence, he got the secret-service...
...Traitor to Parliament. When the votes were counted, the majority against Faure was 318 to 218-six more than a constitutional majority of the 622-man Chamber. Only ten months before, Mendès had also been defeated by a constitutional majority, and the constitution provides that the Assembly can be dissolved if two successive governments are so overthrown within 18 months. But no Premier under the Fourth Republic ever has invoked this right, nor any chief executive under the Third Republic since Marshal MacMahon did it in 1877. MacMahon succeeded only in discrediting himself as an "anti-parliamentary traitor...