Word: traitorously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because Minister of Interior Jean Louis Malvy fell in a swoon (TIME, March 29) while enraged Deputies shrieked, "Traitor! Pig! Lover of Mata Hari!" and because he subsequently resigned from Premier Briand's Cabinet (TIME, April 19), many Frenchmen had been strengthened in their belief of the nine-year-old charge that he was once the lover of Mata Hari, a Javanese-Dutch dancer, who allegedly secured and sold to Germany secrets concerning the British tank (1917) and was shot as a spy on French soil a few months later...
Trembling with rage and stumbling in his nervousness, M. Malvy himself mounted the tribune. A slight, dark man with large prominent eyes, his voice was heard only occasionally over roars of "Traitor!" "Chacal!" "Resign!" "Scelerat!" "Pig!" "Traitor...
Since Joseph Caillaux has been everything, from Premier (1911) to an alleged traitor during the War and unsuccessful Debt Commissioner to the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.), this refocusing of serious attention upon him was undoubtedly significant of the desperate shortage of real leaders in France...
Chang Avenged. Last week the mills of Chinese poetic justice ground a traitor and his wife exceeding small. The traitor was General Kuo Sung-lien, once the most trusted henchman of the great Manchurian Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin. Less than a month ago (TIME, Dec. 7) he mutinously turned against Chang and forced him to flee to Mukden, his capital, there to make a last stand...
...while senator after senator declared: "I vote in deference to your judgment, M. Briand." Former President Millerand, who blocked M. Briand's attempts to gain security for France at Cannes, was all but thrust from the Senate when he attacked the bill. The excited senators shouted: "Renegade! . . . Traitor...