Word: traitorousness
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...Traitors. That this might be confusing to Communists was demonstrated by the way Moscow's East German satellite bosses were running their own society. Under a new decree, hundreds of East Germans were being snatched up and "resettled" in small isolated towns in the interior for "work education." Reason: they were suspected of planning to escape to the West or of encouraging others to do so. Hordes of uniformed "Free German Youth" youngsters were sent out to inspect every East German's rooftop television and F.M. aerial, tear down those that were pointed toward the stations of Wrest...
Soft Bed in Berlin. Instead, the broadcasts convinced Britain's government that Jeeves's erratic inventor had turned traitor. To repudiate Wodehouse, choleric William Connor-author of the Daily Mirror's Cassandra column-was drafted by the Minister of Information. In a virulent attack broadcast by the BBC, Connor castigated Wodehouse as "an old playboy" who had "fallen on his knees and worshipped Hitler." Roared Connor: "It is a somber story of self-respect, honor and decency being pawned to the Nazis for the price of a soft bed in a luxury hotel...
...Castro, Ray says: "He has done harm to my country; harm to the entire free world; he has done harm to everyplace." And of Castro's fate, after he is deposed: "It must be decided in a fair trial whether he is a traitor or not. I am personally opposed to all executions. There will be no murders afterward, except those that fall in battle; we are all agreed on that. Fidel must be tried, and the judges must decide...
...conscience and a believing heart." But what was duty? Eichmann again had a ready answer: obedience. "I was always used to discipline, from my childhood until 1945," he explained, "discipline that required my unreserved, unconditional obedience." With pride, he added: "If somebody told me, 'Your father is a traitor,' and I was ordered to kill him, I would have done so without hesitation...
Last week Thao grimly counted an election-week total of 60 Communist dead, killed in some dozen jungle skirmishes. Though the Communists warned that they would shoot any "traitor" who voted, Thao got 83% of his voters to the polls. "We tried a little propaganda of our own," he admits. "We told the people that if they did not vote, they would have trouble getting jobs or help from the government...