Word: traitorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister had pledged both his own and his Cabinet's word to keep the secret. When it leaked out he saw red, jumped to the conclusion that he must have been betrayed by some disloyal civil servant, invoked the Official Secrets Act, ordered Scotland Yard to get the traitor...
...impossible for him to serve while a majority of the War Committee remained hostile. The opposition majority immediately elected Socialist Pataks to take his place, but there were enough Government members on the committee to make things hot for Chairman Pataks. Shouting that he was a lily-livered traitor they demanded his resignation, claimed that he wanted to reduce the Polish Army by 60,000 men. Socialist members sprang to his defense, private war invaded the War Committee. Socialists and Pilsudskites shouted insults, hurled inkpots, slapped each other's faces, kicked each other's shins. The melee...