Word: traitor
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Later, at lunch, Ribbentrop fretfully asked his fellow prisoners: "What shall I do?" Göring had the oldtime Nazi spirit: "That traitor! That's one Kerl (guy) we forgot to dispose...
Ezra Pound, in Washington awaiting trial for treason (pro-Axis broadcasts from Rome), was freshly reindicted for 19 overt acts, and became the center of a literary flurry in Manhattan. Pulitzer Prizewinner Conrad Aiken considered him "less traitor than fool", E. E. Cummings whipped up a paraphrasing of "To thine own self be true. . . ." ; Louis Untermeyer favored life imprisonment among the works of Eddie Guest. Random House hastily dropped Pound from a forthcoming poetry anthology...
Thus died the man whose name had become a worldwide synonym for traitor. The police had to keep the ashes of his cremated body; his native village refused to accept them for burial...
...here, would seem strange to Americans. . . . Freedom exists here only in so far as it conforms with the Communist Party line. The Party brooks no opposition. If you are with it you are a patriot. If you are too critical you run the risk of being denounced as a traitor...
...There is no mercy for ... those who are considered traitors. . . . Today I passed a small-fry traitor being led down the street on the end of a rope. He was on his way to the execution grounds...