Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Counterfeit Traitor. Incessantly exciting story of an Allied agent in Sweden during World...
...Counterfeit Traitor (Paramount). Oil, the Swedes remarked sadly in the fall of 1942, is thicker than blood. They were speaking of Eric Erickson, an American who came to Sweden in the '20s, did well in the oil business, took out Swedish citizenship. Then came the war. Erickson, like most neutrals, continued to do business with the Germans, but when he was put on the Allied blacklist his reaction was odious. He publicly insulted the country of his birth, openly frequented the German legation in Stockholm, made fulsome speeches praising the Führer...
...cover for his secret activities as an Allied agent. Those activities, depicted with approximate accuracy in a novel by Alexander Klein, have now been cleverly rejiggered to produce an expert and expensive ($4,500,000) spy thriller. Written and directed by George (The Bridges at Toko-ri) Seaton, Traitor describes how Erickson (William Holden) was shanghaied into espionage by the Allies, how he made "business trips" to Germany and reported what he saw and heard, how he came to hate the Nazis and to like his work, how he fell in love with a companion in espionage (Lilli Palmer...
...Yanqiii but Cuban nationalists all the way, bitterly protested the intrusion. In October 1959, a bearded leader of Castro's rebel army, Huber Mates, resigned, saying that "the hour is coming when anyone who does not commune with Communism has to leave or be accused of being a traitor." Castro had him arrested on charges of treason and sentenced to 20 years in jail...
Second, the O.A.S. opposes de Gaulle because of profound contempt for the man himself, not just his policy. They consider him a traitor because of his policies, yes; but they reserve their strongest feelings of dislike for his autocracy and pomposity. In this, they are curiously close to the political regulars of Paris; but the differences are naturally more striking. In helping to bring him to power three-and-a-half years ago, the extremists in the Army hoped to end what it considered the futile game of French parliamentary politics. They considered France's indulgence in that game...