Word: traitor
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...emergency session of the City Assembly, plucky Mayor Louise Schroeder introduced a resolution saying that Berlin belonged to all four occupation powers. Russian observers watched grimly as the resolution was overwhelmingly passed. Said Kurt Lansberg, a Christian Democratic history professor: "Anyone who leaves Berlin is a traitor...
...Czechoslovakia, there was no real need for gloves. The country had a Soviet-style election. Every voter had his choice -of one candidate. Premier Klement Gottwald called his election "the freest in the world." However, anybody who turned in a blank ballot would be considered a traitor. (The Reds...
...Pennsylvania, he simply concluded that the Unionists were as different from the Confederates as another "race of people." So it seemed, also, to Gettysburg Housewife Sallie Broadhead, as she watched Lee's vanguard outside her house. The Southerners were "a miserable-looking set" of alien monsters with a "traitor's flag" who pranced barefoot to horrible "Southern tunes...
...their defeat. The victors gleefully taunted them with banners: "Togliatti-do you understand? Go back to Russia!" Rome chuckled over the story of the two Communist election judges at Ischia: when the returns were counted, only one Communist vote had been cast. Each judge called the other a traitor; both wound up in the hospital...
...Government had already introduced a letter from Best in which he wrote to a Nazi radio official: "It would be well for you to emphasize the importance of my work for Germany in its fight against Bolshevism ... at the price of having myself branded as a traitor and exposed to the penalty of death...