Word: traitorously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First is the general usage of such terms as Trojan horse, subversive agents, fifth columnists, etc. It occurs to me that none of these carries the full stigma of the old terms spies and traitors. The full impact of feeling of contempt is lost. One might even consider himself smart in being a fifth columnist, but never in being a traitor...
...press of Paris and London let go with a broadside of invective. "King Quisling," sneered the London Evening Standard. "King of the Fifth Column," echoed the Daily Mirror. In Paris the best that Leopold was called was "traitor" and "felon king." Paris-soir reported that General Walter von Reichenau's peace terms, which Leopold accepted, included the turning over to the Germans of all war materiel intact, free passage of the German Army to the sea. The French Legion of Honor struck Leopold's name from its rolls...
...merely a part of his larger attack on the "Benedict Arnolds." The latter phrase refers, in his letter, to "the unpaid efforts of thousands of Americans to conduct pro-Ally propaganda." In effect, anyone who supports a policy of aid to the Allies in the present juncture is a traitor. The use of this epithet invites attention to Dr. Zipf's remarks on "emotional involvement...
Cotton Ed garrumphed that he would not "sacrifice . . . the welfare of my State and Nation to be elected as a delegate . . ."; he would not be "a traitor in my own heart." For Cotton Ed Smith will never forget the ghastly shock of the hot day in June 1936, when he saw a Negro preacher offering the invocation at a Democratic National Convention session. In his view, Franklin Roosevelt is leading the party away from White Supremacy, and to Cotton Ed, White Supremacy is as real as the population of his beloved Lee County: White, 7,850, Negro...
Norway's salvation lay in the hope that, in a non-Lexingtonian sense, the British were coming. This week, same day Traitor Quisling dropped his ministerial pretensions, the British arrived...