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Anatomy of Power. But in 1572 the balance of confusion at last tipped toward a resolution-or so it seemed. France's most influential Protestant was Admiral Gaspard Coligny, a military hero and a onetime condemned traitor (in Catherine's vacillating France, it was easy to be both). Coligny demanded an immediate war with the Catholic Philip, and at the moment had the ear of Catherine's moody, weakbrained son, King Charles...
Seventeen years after the man whose name became a synonym for traitor was tried and shot for his Nazi collaboration, Norwegians learned the whereabouts of Vidkun Quisling's ashes. Long locked up by the Norwegian government in the fear that neo-Nazis might turn a burial site into a shrine, Quisling's ashes were finally released two years ago and laid to rest by his widow Maria in the family plot near Skien...
...described his first meeting with Meredith in January of 1961. "I had just addressed a group at Jackson State College," a Negro institution. "A young man in a black leather jacket and a black leather cap stood up and asked me, 'How do we know you're not a traitor? How do we know you're not paid by the Citizens' Councils?'" The young man was James Meredith...
...nonconformist, he came to hate almost everything he wrote about, from politics to literature to animals. Occasionally his tirades were hilarious ; more often they were simply ridiculous. No columnist in American history has heaped so much personal abuse on so many people over so long a period. "Liar," "Communist," "traitor," "parasite" were words that Pegler commonly used to describe most of the people he disliked...
...Counterfeit Traitor. In this superior spy thriller, Allied Espionage Agent William Holden outwits some believable Nazi monsters...