Word: traitorously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pastoral letter published in the press: "There exist individuals and organized groups of people who are trying to get consecrated hosts, which they profane and use for unmentionable purposes during their meetings." In another letter he wrote: "A sect which sustains the part of Judas the Traitor is at work, and is all the more repulsive because . . . boys are abused...
...ceremonies with President Carmona, the old soldier preens and beams; Salazar slinks back in the car, a scowl on his handsome face with the Savonarola-hard mouth. Asked why he refused to respond to cheers, Salazar gave a characteristic answer: "I could not flatter the people without being a traitor to my own conscience. Our regime is popular but it is not a government of the masses, being neither influenced nor directed by them. These good people who, moved by the excitement of the occasion, cheer me one day, may rise in rebellion the next day for equally passing reasons...
Nothing that Mihailovich could say would wipe out abundant evidence that some of his Chetnik troops collaborated with the Germans. His tale was of how and why they came to do so, the tale of a victim and a failure, but not that of a traitor. He said...
...world the truth was not so easy to distill out of the steaming cauldron of hatred, feuds and rivalries that was Yugoslavia when Hitler struck. To millions outside who remembered his early heroism, his rescue of U.S. and British flyers, it was hard to believe Mihailovich a traitor. What, then, was he guilty...
Heil Lewis! John L. Lewis [TIME, May 20] is a traitor to his country. ... If [he] is not a conspirator, if he is not restraining trade, if he isn't preventing the normal forces of competition which determine the demand and price which a laborer is able to command on an open market, then I wasted three years in the Army, 22 months overseas, helping restrain a despot who did that very thing. ... If we people will only let it be known how we feel, maybe the proper authorities will screw up their courage to the sticking point...