Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Robert Henry Best, 56, South Carolina-born newspaperman and longtime (1923-41) United Press correspondent in Vienna, who turned traitor during World War II, was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1948 (TIME, July 12, 1948) for broadcasting Nazi propaganda from Berlin (sample: "I hope that Europe will demand the life of one Jew for every European who dies in the present war"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield...
...Sverma, and then recruited Sverma's widow-who apparently harbored no resentment-into the Slansky ring. (A few days later the widow appeared in the courtroom-as a witness, not yet a defendant-and admitted, in tears, that she had joined the conspiracy. Commented Prague radio: "This great traitor tried vainly to simulate remorse...
Last week Clementis identified himself as a spy and traitor, and said that, like Slansky, he had tried to kill Gottwald, his dear friend. He fingered John Foster Dulles of the U.S., Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, and Ales Bebler of Yugoslavia as "spies." Ludvik Frejka, author of the Czechoslovak two-and five-year plans, took the stand to confess: "I sabotaged in such a way that there is still rationing of electricity and food in Czechoslovakia." The wife of accused former Deputy Foreign Minister Arthur London wrote the court that she at first believed her husband innocent...
...Mexico City, Artist Diego Rivera, who was expelled from the Communist Party in 1929. later compounded his sins by providing a home in exile for Leon Trotsky, made his third formal appeal to be taken back into the fold. He had been, said Rivera, "a coward, traitor, counterrevolutionary, abject degenerate" who would, if given another chance, pledge his art and reputation to the sole service of "Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism," the "only just and true political line...
...should a writer, such as [Arthur] Koestler, having abandoned Communism, be considered a hero or martyr to the cause of liberty, while a writer who abandoned the cause of Fascism at the height of its power-and for the same reasons for which Koestler abandoned Communism-be considered a traitor...