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Touring London's suburbs at week's end, Eden ran into uglier heckling. "You're a traitor to Britain by giving arms to the Germans," a hoarse voice called out. and trailed off into an accusation that Eden and the Conservatives had sat back on chairs while Britons died in the war. Eden reddened and flared, "I lost two brothers in the first war and my son in the last one." The heckler howled: "You're a scoundrel!" Eden rejoined: "I am quite willing to be called a scoundrel, but I won't let anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: On the Hustings | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...good news to all loyal Americans; but why is he sorry about it? The major goal of our foreign policy should be strained the relations, with the Chinese Reds; the more strained the relations, the better the foreign policy; and anyone who is sorry about this is surely a traitor. From Here to Shimbashi is a dangerous book for the soft minds of our youth; let it be burnt. JOHN SACK...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Here to Shimbashi | 4/12/1955 | See Source »

...white settlers such a policy amounts to appeasement of "coolies" (Indians) and "monkeys" (Africans). They blame their trouble on the faraway British Colonial Office, which they regard as a "nigger-loving" annex of the London School of Economics. Some of Minister Blundell's neighbors openly call him a traitor, because he lent his considerable prestige to a series of reforms that admitted one African and two Indians to the governor's cabinet. But when the question was put to the white settlers at Nakuru last week, Blundell got his vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Man of Character | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...Deal Democrat, Holt waited six months until he reached the required age of 30 before taking his seat, quickly alienated his coal-miner supporters by filibustering to death the Guffey-Vinson coal bill, was characterized by the United Mine Workers as "the dirtiest traitor of all." Defeated in the 1940 primary, he retired temporarily from politics, turned Republican in 1950, got the G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination but lost the election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 21, 1955 | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...revue. Sokolowski, who knew many Russians in the course of the city's dealings with the occupation authorities, obligingly took them over to the Soviet High Commission building. There he was ushered into the office of High Commissioner Ivan Ilyichev, and abruptly arrested as a "deserter and traitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: The Dossier | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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