Word: traitorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fischelis read Thomas Wolfe's Farewell Letter to Foxhall Edwards, from "You Can't Go Home Again," an evenly paced, compelling piece of prose. Franklin chose for his selection Robert Emmet's "Protest Against Sentence as a Traitor," a strongly-worded denunciation of the prejudice and ignorance of the convicting judges, Miller recited "The Spirit of Liberty," a speech by Judge Learned Hand '93 on the ocassion of a naturalization ceremony...
...Montreal police strike, said Sullivan, was "secretly financed by the Communist Party, [which] furnished $9,000." In the current Cartier by-election campaign in Montreal (to select a Member of Parliament to succeed Communist and traitor Fred Rose), "all available forces of the C.S.U. in Montreal are being thrown" behind the Communist candidate...
...Trevor). They meet in Russian-occupied Austria-the girl is there on her own, looking for an American who did treasonable broadcasts for the Nazis; the Russian is on furlough. While fighting over ideologies, they fall in love; between kisses the girl confides that she is looking for the traitor, and the lover snaps back into the officer. But after some random melodrama, there is both a personal and an ideological get-together...
...press, both League and Congress are very violent, and speeches of leaders on both sides are continually inciting bloodshed. At last week's Hindu Mahasabha* Session at Gorakhpur, the mention of Nehru's name was greeted with shouts of 'Traitor!' At the conclusion of a violent speech, a member of the audience climbed on the platform, cut his hand, and offered blood then & there. The recent Sind election campaign generally consisted of speeches of vilification, one community v. another...
...home from Moscow. Tsar Alexander was so sure he had won singlehanded that he managed to forget completely that he had been Napoleon's ally-until Napoleon had invaded Russia. He sternly charged the King of Saxony (who had backed the wrong horse too long) with being "a traitor to the common cause." "That, Your Imperial Majesty," answered Talleyrand, "is a question of dates...