Word: traitorousness
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...Colonel Blimp hurt his own, his men's and his nation's cause by raising boneheadedness to the level of character. In Face of a Hero, a lawyer transformed personal cowardice into a basis for public esteem. In the present book, a Free French intelligence agent turns traitor and yet convinces himself that he has won a personal badge of courage...
...lieutenant of ex-Premier Mohammed Mossadegh and now an advocate of Gandhi-style protest, last week rallied 2,000 young Iranians to a meeting of his new movement, the "Protectors of Liberty." Speaking in quiet classroom tones from a stuccoed Teheran balcony, Baghai declared: "Premier Eghbal is a traitor. Among the big opium smugglers are high government officials, deputies, ministers, directors of independent agencies. Dr. Eghbal knows every one of them. If this Cabinet does not resign or is not removed, there will be an end to the Kingdom of Iran...
Admission of Guilt. With his ear-to-ear grin and coonskin cap routine, Estes Kefauver has often been dismissed by pundits as an excessively folksy light weight. But in his battle against "Tip" Taylor, the Keef showed bracing political courage. When Taylor called him a traitor to the South for voting for the 1957 and 1960 civil rights bills, Kefauver defended the bills on the steps of every courthouse where he could draw a crowd. "I shall continue to favor the expansion of the right to vote," he said in Memphis, Tennessee's most strongly segregationist city, "until every...
...Before a political rally in Alexandria, Nasser accused the Shah of being a tool of "imperialism," and, in classic fashion, all but invited the Shah's subjects to assassinate their king. Egypt's Ministry of Religious Affairs directed imams to preach sermons against the Shah as a "traitor to Islam," and Nasser urged his fellow Arab nations to withdraw their ambassadors from Teheran too. So far only Saudi Arabia has agreed, and on condition that all other Arab League nations made it unanimous...
...announced that in the future they would be "lovable." This concession outraged many Zengakuren hotheads who labeled the Communists "sissified," and voted into the top leadership a toughminded Trotskyite group, which is now called the "mainstream faction." Mainstreamers are so far out politically that they consider Khrushchev a "traitor" to the proletariat. As a result, Communist students are considered "moderates" by the Japanese press in contrast with the club-swinging mainstreamers. But it was the Communist "moderates" who besieged Hagerty's car at the airport...