Word: traitor
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Last week two beautiful women made news. One was a heroine, the other a traitor...
...Traitor. Lida Baarova (real name: Ludmilla Babkova) was born in Prague. Her father was a Milquetoasty little fellow who worked in the city hall; her domineering mother was determined that Lida should be a radiant somebody. She became one, in motion pictures. Seven years ago she was the center of a great brouhaha when goatish little Paul Joseph Goebbels was beaten up (either by her burly husband, Gustav Frölich, or by friends of his) for being entertained in Lida's chambers. Berliners coined a crack-"Ich möchte so gern fröhlich sein"-which...
Faced by this evidence that Joyce was not British, the presiding justice threw out the first two counts of the indictment, which were based on a presumption of British citizenship. But there was a third count: that Joyce behaved as a traitor in Germany between Sept. 18, 1939 and July 2, 1940, when his British passport expired. The prosecution argued that during this period, since he enjoyed the protection of a British passport, he owed allegiance to the British Crown, and that he had betrayed that allegiance...
...murmur rippled through the tense crowd as the traitor reached the scaffold. The sentence was read again. The executioners lifted him by a leather strap under his armpits into the crowd's full view. They slipped the noose around his neck. Suddenly, in guttural German, Pfitzner half-shouted, half-croaked...
...angry executioner slapped the traitor's face, sprang the trap...