Word: traitorousness
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...letter, hot-headed Randolph Churchill denounced the "pharisaical attitude" of "certain French elements in London" (i.e., Fighting French). He also deplored "the widespread tendency to assume that any Frenchman who had occupied an official position under the Vichy government must be a traitor or possessed of a Fascist mentality...
Winter Is a Traitor. Since November and Stalingrad, the Russians had been moving forward. Winter had enlisted in the Russian services of supply, which depended, in winter, on three things-rails, wheeled vehicles, and above all, snow vehicles; snows had helped sleighs, had favored horseflesh over motors, the wooden ski over the steel halftrack. The Russians had learned how to move mechanized armies through the snow. The Russians' hope, they knew, was to keep moving and to keep the Germans off balance. This they could do-and did impressively well -until they had to pause to regroup their forces...
...Poona, wizened, rebellious, mystical Mohandas K. Gandhi last week began his tenth hunger strike since 1918. At the age of 74, Gandhi said that he planned to live on a diet of fruit juice and water for 21 days.* He embarrassed the British, who have branded Gandhi as a traitor at worst, a troublesome mystic at best. For his own Congress party followers (including at least 60,000 who have been arrested since last August) the fast was an effort to bolster sagging morale and stiffen the fraying fibers of resistance to British rule...
British Minister Macmillan put in a word for U.S. expediency-a policy which the British hitherto had not warmly approved in North Africa. Political administration and policy had to be secondary to military need. Said Macmillan, explaining the continued dealings with Vichyites: "There is lots of difference between a traitor and one of the weaker brethren who chose the path of least resistance...
...knows exactly what happened to Bob Best. Columnist Dorothy Thompson believes he turned traitor because he is "intellectually lazy" and "ignorant." Author William L. Shirer says Bob Best "stayed too long in Europe." Some had always thought him a queer duck, with a fanatical religious bent. One correspondent who worked with him said: "I always figured he was an eccentric, but I never thought he was a son of a bitch...