Word: traitorousness
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...veracity of death the film ranges the long battlefront: a Soviet submarine sights a ship through its periscope and torpedoes her; Soviet ski troops swoop down a hill under fire and some fall. A company of guerrillas storm a village. When the battle ends, they angrily execute a captured traitor...
...chested Oscar Servaczgo, striking Wilkes-Barre anthracite coal miner, sat in his kitchen talking to Philadelphia Record Reporter Johnston D. Kerkhoft. Suddenly a telephone call brought him stunning news. One of his two Navy sons had been killed in the Pacific. Servaczgo burst out: "I ain't a traitor, damn 'em, I ain't a traitor. I'll stay out until hell freezes over...
...people of the U.S. shivered and wondered. Some of them were indeed using the word traitor on the likes of Oscar Servaczgo. In all the Eastern Seaboard there was not enough fuel to keep homes warm, fire factory furnaces, prosecute the war. In East-Central Pennsylvania's anthracite basin extending from Carbondale to Pottsville there was good hard coal aplenty-underground-but some 17,000 striking miners refused to dig it. Other thousands threatened to walk out. The press roared its disapproval or belatedly questioned...
...picture, shows that he deserves a better one. As a French industrialist who stays in Paris to collaborate with the Nazis, he has moments in which he almost makes the picture seem important. But the film, which starts as if it were going to be a portrait of a traitor, soon becomes just another melodrama...
Jarred by outside criticism, the British in India repeated their charges that Gandhi was a screwball pacifist at best, a traitor at worst. They claimed that, having governed India for 168 years, they were better prepared to meet India's present crisis than well-meaning intruders. They asked how, with a Japanese invasion threatened, immediate Indian independence could be granted when the Indians could not agree among themselves? This was a valid point, but twistable...