Word: traitorously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TRAITOR'S PURSE-Margery Alllngham -Crime Club ($2). Daffy from a copper's clout, Albert Campion sheds his amnesia in time's nick, saves England from civil commotion. Present are Manservant Lugg and Lady Amanda Fritton, Campion's fiancee. Another of Margery Allingham's well-made, well-mannered British stories...
...what about Laval?" he asked. "I wish I could read his mind. Is he a mere traitor? Is it personal ambition? Or does he sincerely believe that a German collaboration is better than even a British victory? Here the fact is that Laval is playing the game of the Germans, and in so doing he is fighting Petain...
...better traitor than terrorist, Major Vidkun Quisling has been a four-star flop as Nazi Gauleiter of the country he betrayed. Tough-fibred Norwegians, though defeated, have refused to be conquered. The Norsemen's passive resistance has included sabotage of power plants, attacks on individual Nazis, stealing any Nazi weapons left unguarded. Secret anti-Nazi organizations have flourished and have smuggled in money from sympathetic Sweden, arms from Britain...
...company. The extreme nationalists had gone in for religious racism. They had celebrated the centenary of the Great Trek hysterically for a whole year, touring the backveld from town to town in ox wagons. Anyone who didn't grow a voortreker (pioneer) beard was an "outlander" or a traitor. A synagogue was dynamited, and George VI's message to the final jamboree was read in Afrikaans. A hangover from this emotional bender was the growth of the Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Fireguard), an Afrikaans cultural organization specializing in swastika armbands, military training, bombings of buildings and rail ways...
Since Carol's fall and Premier General Ion Antonescu's ascent to power, the Codreanist Guards have watched the results of German occupation with growing anger. Horia Sima, leader of the moderate Guardists, was looked on as a traitor for accepting the Vice Premiership. Antonescu himself only joined the Guard after his coup, was hooted down as the German cat's-paw who had given Transylvania to the Hungarians. For the extremist Guards did not fancy the Nazis at close quarters. Among other things for which the Germans were blamed was a 300-400% rise in food...