Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brighton church, but the most bitter criticism came from trade unionists within his party. They argued that the whole labor movement would die if unions no longer had the right to bargain for higher wages. Six hundred auto workers massed outside Wilson's hotel in Brighton. "Wilson, you traitor!" they shouted. Inside the Labor conference, Frank Cousins, the boss of Britain's biggest union, the Transport and General Workers, fumed defiance. "We shall now be in conflict with the law," he declared. "Because when the law is unfair, trade unionists since time immemorial have opposed...
Treason has many faces, and most of them are familiar to Dame Rebecca West. Her studies of such traitors as Lord Haw-Haw, Klaus Fuchs, Pontecorvo and the Rosenbergs, explored the wide range of motives that can impel a man to betrayal. Sometimes, as in the case of Lord Haw-Haw or Fuchs, the traitor is distinguished from the patriot mainly by a loyalty turned upside down. Sometimes the reason is outside compulsion: John Vassall, a homosexual in the British embassy in Moscow, claimed that he turned informer under threat of exposure by the Russians...
Kamensky's exposure and murder are engineered by Vassili Chubinov, himself a revolutionary and terrorist-and, to be sure, a traitor as well. Chubinov is surely the most appealing anarchist ever conceived. Even his ungainly figure is sketched with sympathy, down to his very overcoat, "hanging on the door in obvious deformity, so badly cut that it did not even fit the air." To him, conspiracy is "a game he happened to enjoy ... his kind...
This engaging traitor steals the show from Kamensky-but not without blunting the purpose of Dame Rebecca's book, which was to explain the double agent's rationale. Kamensky had a real-life counterpart, one levno Aseff, who operated around the turn of the century, accepting missions from Russian revolutionaries as well as from the Czar. The abstract motivation that Dame Rebecca gives to Kamensky would have baffled such a man as Aseff...
...precedent last year by inviting the Republic of Ireland's Catholic Premier Sean Lemass to Belfast. It was then that Paisley, fearing a sellout to the Catholics, began stumping Ulster's six counties, attacking everyone from the Pope ("old red socks") to the Archbishop of Canterbury ("another traitor"). "O'Neill might as well try to stop Niagara Falls with a teaspoon." Paisley stormed, "as try to stop our Protestant cause." When Queen Elizabeth arrived in Belfast this month to dedicate a bridge, embittered Catholics promised retaliation; and sure enough, a twelve-pound chunk of concrete came crashing...