Word: traitorousness
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...sinister greasy eminence who bamboozled the National Assembly into capitulating in 1940 and dragged Marianne in the muck by collaborating with Germany. When gallant Charles de Gaulle returned to slay this monster and (with some small American help) deliver France from thralldom, his countrymen threw Laval into a traitor's grave, hoping that five years of national guilt and failure might be buried with...
Hubert Cole's Laval is neither traitor nor hero. Instead he is a complex, unprepossessing peasant, skillful but overwhelmed by pride, brilliant but narrow, who gambled his life (plus what was left of his country's honor) in the hope of horse trading with Hitler to ease the pangs of the occupation in France. "If I succeed," Laval said prophetically in the dark days of 1942, "there won't be enough stones in this country to raise statues to me. If I fail, T will be shot...
...Name the Traitor." Northern and Southern techniques vary. Southern Negroes with broader goals boycott entire business districts as a community protest. In Birmingham, retailers have averaged a $750,000 weekly loss, some because Negro trade boycotted stores, some because whites did not venture downtown for fear of possible violence. "The boycott seems to be moderating," says one businessman. "But it has been effective all right." In Macon, Ga., last year, Negroes discontinued riding buses to protest segregated seating, came back only after the bus company, suffering a 50% fare loss, capitulated. Charleston, S.C., Negroes won 16 clerks' jobs...
...openers, the plot presents a kindly old professor at Oxford who inexplicably accepts a bundle of boodle from the Russians and then jumps to his death from a speeding train. Was the dear old boy a traitor? Or was he a heuristic hero self-brainwashed by sensory deprivation...
...information it contained was, in fact, highly classified: the locations, code names and telephone numbers of twelve Regional Seats of Government from which British authorities would at tempt to restore order in the event of nuclear attack. "This," exclaimed Home Secretary Henry Brooke, "is the work of a traitor...