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...agents spider-webbed czarist Russia, and at home he confounded Russian spies who sought Austro-Hungarian military secrets. But talented Alfred Redl had one terrible weakness: he was a homosexual. Russian agents contrived a trap and caught him one day; then they threatened to expose him unless he turned traitor. Redl turned, for eleven years served Russia as a master spy-within-a-spy. The extent of his treason was discovered after war broke out in 1914: Russia knew the Austro-Hungarian and German war plans. Two fellow officers visited Alfred Redl one night, left him a loaded pistol. Alfred...
...plug for academic freedom, reads both a Republican and a Democratic newspaper to get both sides of every question. When a wealthy donor offered Ivy $500,000 with the proviso that it not be used for students of "certain races and creeds" ("After all, one cannot be a traitor to one's class"), Dr. Hall turned her down flat: "Life is like a college, Mrs. Marshall, you don't learn much by attending only one class...
...This] is a fact of considerable importance. For not only Trotskyists and some Socialists disdainfully treat Stalin as a traitor to the true Marxian-Leninist world-proletarian revolution and as a common nationalistic dictator-another Hitler. Many of the most powerful Western statesmen and military leaders accept this escapist myth...
Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). The Traitor, with Lee Tracy...
Said the committee: "Because of the tyrannical grip a small clique has upon the W-T&S unit . . . anyone who questions the leadership is called a traitor . . . The time has come for a reasonable and fair approach ... Scripps-Howard has money in the bank. Some of us no longer have." The committee suggested that the dispute over security, the chief issue, be settled by accepting management's latest offer (the same as in the present New York Times contract...