Word: traitor
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...Traitor's Progress. William Curtis Colepaugh, his renegade companion, was a weak-faced, gangling young man who had grown up in Connecticut, had somehow developed a sentimental sense of attachment to "beautiful Germany." He had graduated from Farragut Academy in New Jersey, flunked out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Grabbed later as a draft dodger, he joined the Navy, put on such a show of love for the Germans that the Navy discharged him. From then on, it was easy-for a while. Colepaugh sailed to Europe as a messboy on the diplomatic exchange liner Gripsholm, jumped ship...
...artists should not be treated as ordinary citizens. Jacques Benoist-Mechin is a composer who has written a few works in which you may find a certain gift. He was a minister in the Laval cabinet. Now he is arrested, accused as a traitor, a German spy. I hope he will be shot...
...conquered China five years ago, Wang Ching-wei had expected death-at the hands of assassins. For several years he had carried in his body one bullet that failed to kill him. But last fortnight, when death, as it must to all men, came to China's No.11 traitor (aged 60, in a Japanese hospital), it came not from gunfire but from diabetes...
...Poland implied a split in the Polish Government in Exile. General Kasimierz Sosnkowski and other London Poles who refused to accept a Russian-dominated Poland were reported to have bought properties in Brazil, where they planned to go into permanent exile. General Bor (indicted by Lublin as a traitor) and his Partisans -the only other organized anti-Russian group-were in even more permanent exile in German prison camps...
...when General Bor was made commander in chief of all the Polish Government's forces, the Lublin government denounced him as a "criminal." threatened to arrest and try him if he fell into their hands. Promptly, when General Bor surrendered to the Germans, the Lublin Poles cried: "Traitor...