Word: traitor
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...truck-fed. They could marshal superiority in numbers at any point they chose. They had a fifth column of diabolical proportions. In Kweilin, some said, General Kenji Doihara himself was directing the fifth column, but they were wrong. Behind the elbow of every soldier stood the fear of a traitor; the fifth column was among the refugee flood on southbound trains, collecting information, firing buildings, shooting at sight...
Last week among the eight officers hanged by Heinrich Himmler for conspiracy against the Nazis, was Count Yorck von Wartenburg, the patriotic traitor's great-grandson. Yorck von Wartenburg was hanged, among other things, because he was suspected of conspiracy with the head of Moscow's League of German Officers, General Walther von Seydlitz...
Later Ling's children return, experienced guerrilla fighters. They teach the humane old man to kill. He becomes the leader of the underground, is betrayed to his soft merchant son-in-law (Akim Tamiroff), a collaborationist. Katharine Hepburn causes the death of the traitor and succeeds, in an inadvertently funny banquet scene, in poisoning most of the local Japanese command. At length Ling Tan learns his hardest lesson: for all his reverence for his soil and home, he must destroy both, since they are useful only to the enemy...
...Casement, famed Irish patriot, was back from the Kaiser's Germany with a message for Ireland's underground rebels. A countrywoman spied him sneaking along the beach, notified the constabulary. Sergeant O'Reilly hurried to the scene, made the arrest that sent Sir Roger to a traitor's hanging in the Tower of London...
...capture, trial and execution of a traitor: wry, long-necked, the flaps of his cap like the ears of an animal, he looks simpleminded, hardly aware of what is happening...