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When McCray's appointment to the Harvard coaching staff was announced in Hanover last spring, he found himself confronted with a few congratulations and many half-smiling accusations of "Traitor." He found himself the butt of many jokes, and "So you're going to coach at Harvard" became a general battle cry among his room-mates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MoCray Man of Two Countries As Pupils Contact Teammates | 10/22/1937 | See Source »

...every war on every side, there are two kinds of court martial. When a traitor or foreign agent of real importance has been caught he is tried briefly and behind closed doors and then taken out and quietly shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Reprieve | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...weekly organ, Der Stunner, Reichspropagandist Julius Streicher announced that Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich, who has declared her intention of becoming a U. S. citizen, is a traitor to Germany. He moaned: "This German-born film actress has lived so many years with the Hollywood film Jews that she has now become an American citizen." When contemplating citizenship, Cinemactress Dietrich said: "America has been good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 18, 1937 | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Last week in Minister Colony's present church in suburban Kensington, a choir boy named Willard Noble, just turning 21, stood before his rector and recited a lengthy oath, core of which was: "I believe that every Communist and Fascist in America is a traitor to the United States of America. This is my pledge as an American and a Christian: to fight Communism and Fascism wherever I find them; to enlist others in the fight. . . ." Explained David Colony, who said he had thought up the oath after attending a Nazi meeting: "I wish to see every boy passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Colony's Oath | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Neither a traitor nor a patriot but a Chinese realist, General Sung quite realized that he was at the mercy of General Kazuki unless Chinese Generalissimo Chiang should strongly back him, and this week Sung suddenly caved in, so Kazuki said. According to Japanese sources. General Sung made abject apologies for the recent fighting in North China, agreed to punish Chinese officers whose troops had fought, and confirmed that he always tries to stamp out "anti-Japanism." But all this from Sung was "verbal" and Chinese sources kept absolutely mum about what he had or had not promised Kazuki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Another Kuo? | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

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