Word: traitorously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week two beautiful women made news. One was a heroine, the other a traitor...
...Traitor. Lida Baarova (real name: Ludmilla Babkova) was born in Prague. Her father was a Milquetoasty little fellow who worked in the city hall; her domineering mother was determined that Lida should be a radiant somebody. She became one, in motion pictures. Seven years ago she was the center of a great brouhaha when goatish little Paul Joseph Goebbels was beaten up (either by her burly husband, Gustav Frölich, or by friends of his) for being entertained in Lida's chambers. Berliners coined a crack-"Ich möchte so gern fröhlich sein"-which...
...here, would seem strange to Americans. . . . Freedom exists here only in so far as it conforms with the Communist Party line. The Party brooks no opposition. If you are with it you are a patriot. If you are too critical you run the risk of being denounced as a traitor...
...There is no mercy for ... those who are considered traitors. . . . Today I passed a small-fry traitor being led down the street on the end of a rope. He was on his way to the execution grounds...
Faced by this evidence that Joyce was not British, the presiding justice threw out the first two counts of the indictment, which were based on a presumption of British citizenship. But there was a third count: that Joyce behaved as a traitor in Germany between Sept. 18, 1939 and July 2, 1940, when his British passport expired. The prosecution argued that during this period, since he enjoyed the protection of a British passport, he owed allegiance to the British Crown, and that he had betrayed that allegiance...