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...merely a part of his larger attack on the "Benedict Arnolds." The latter phrase refers, in his letter, to "the unpaid efforts of thousands of Americans to conduct pro-Ally propaganda." In effect, anyone who supports a policy of aid to the Allies in the present juncture is a traitor. The use of this epithet invites attention to Dr. Zipf's remarks on "emotional involvement...
Cotton Ed garrumphed that he would not "sacrifice . . . the welfare of my State and Nation to be elected as a delegate . . ."; he would not be "a traitor in my own heart." For Cotton Ed Smith will never forget the ghastly shock of the hot day in June 1936, when he saw a Negro preacher offering the invocation at a Democratic National Convention session. In his view, Franklin Roosevelt is leading the party away from White Supremacy, and to Cotton Ed, White Supremacy is as real as the population of his beloved Lee County: White, 7,850, Negro...
Norway's salvation lay in the hope that, in a non-Lexingtonian sense, the British were coming. This week, same day Traitor Quisling dropped his ministerial pretensions, the British arrived...
Better than most things, the Chinese people love to pay homage-to ancestors, to warlords, to sacred mountains, even to traitors. From hundreds of miles around, pilgrims travel to the shores of Hang-chow's West Lake proudly to urinate upon the iron statue of a historic traitor named Chin Kuei. In honor of China's newest traitor, Wang Ching-wei, Chinese coolies call the fat-fried crullers they munch for breakfast yu cha-wei (i.e., "May Wei boil in oil in hell!"). Last week a new honor was bestowed on Traitor Wang. Chinese in Chungking started...
...Traitor!" For five years the man who now controls the destiny of Ireland stood pat in his demand for a simon-pure, all-Ireland Republic. Then in 1926 he suddenly proposed to his party of Sinn Feiners that they enter the Irish Free State Legislature on condition that they would not have to swear to the oath of allegiance to George V. His proposal was promptly rejected, and he walked out of the Party to form the Fianna Fail (Militia of Destiny). Later he took the oath and entered the Dail. Old Republican "incorruptibles" shouted "Traitor!" They still...