Word: traitorously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their defeat. The victors gleefully taunted them with banners: "Togliatti-do you understand? Go back to Russia!" Rome chuckled over the story of the two Communist election judges at Ischia: when the returns were counted, only one Communist vote had been cast. Each judge called the other a traitor; both wound up in the hospital...
...which the prosecution played in court. He acknowledged all the counts against him, and he admitted intent to commit each individual act. "If I had it to do over again," he shouted, "I would do it again . . . They can hang me a thousand times, but I was not a traitor...
...Government had already introduced a letter from Best in which he wrote to a Nazi radio official: "It would be well for you to emphasize the importance of my work for Germany in its fight against Bolshevism ... at the price of having myself branded as a traitor and exposed to the penalty of death...
...Libertarian Baldwin right? Many a U.S. citizen wished he were surer.*By now the U.S. was pretty well convinced, on the evidence, that all Communists in a democracy are potential spies and traitors; but the U.S. was still doggedly determined not to treat even a known Communist as a spy or a traitor until he was caught redhanded. That frame of mind was doubtless a source of grim amusement to Communists, who are logical people...
...enforcing partition." The thin distinction would be easier to make in the Council chamber than in the embattled Holy Land. The comic effort to make it, however, followed logically from past U.S. efforts to please everyone, which had ended by pleasing no one. Zionists were crying traitor at the U.S. The U.S. position in the strategically important Arab world was hurt in ways that might cost years and possibly blood to repair...