Word: traitorousness
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...recent Sunday, an American reporter and a visiting Italian Communist Senator journeyed to Mikofalva to see how Hungarian Catholics felt about Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, whom the Reds put in jail as a "traitor" (TIME, Jan. 10). The reporter found that Mikofalva's people thought their cardinal a good man. But he also found some exceptions. The strangest of these was Father Endre Molnar. Father Molnar is a Communist...
...does. He was so handsome, says Tacho, that when he played the guitar, women shivered and swooned. "He could put himself in a yoke and pull like an ox." In a fight over a rooster, says Tacho proudly, Bernabé grabbed a machete and killed 20 men. But a traitor betrayed him. "They hanged Uncle Bernabé," Tacho sighs. "Remembering him, I always try now to avoid provocation. God knows, nobody wishes less bloodshed than...
...having gone to considerable trouble to perfect his voice, Dewey is singing only love songs this year. He talked about the Communists and about Stalin during that half hour of charm at the Arena and it sounded like Arthur Godfrey praising Graham crackers. A traitor's treatment, Dewey cooed, is what any Communist will get if he's caught betraying the Americans government. Here he stepped back from the microphones and smiled delightedly. A thin ripple of applause swept the crowd...
...traitor was a bespectacled, wiry, 27-year-old Nisei named Tomoya Kawakita, better known to hundreds of G.I. prisoners as "The Meatball." The son of a California grocer, Kawakita was caught on a visit to Japan by World War II. He threw in his lot with the Japanese. As an interpreter in the prison camp at Oeyama, he taunted G.I. prisoners in their own ball-park English, took savage delight in tormenting them...
...pronouncing sentence, Federal District Judge William C. Mathes declared grimly: "His life, if spared, would not be worth living. The only worthwhile use for the life of a traitor is to serve as an example to those of weak moral fiber who might hereafter be tempted to commit treason against the U.S." Unless a higher court reverses the verdict or the President intervenes, he will die in the San Quentin gas chamber...