Word: traitorousness
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...both of which were in the news last week are Wang Ching-wei and Wang Chung-hui. Their owners would make as ill-fitting an interchange as the triggers of a crossbow and a Mauser. Wang Chung-hui is a patriot, Wang Ching-wei a traitor. Patriot Wang is naive, legalistic, bureaucratic, in office (Foreign Minister). Traitor Wang is sophisticated, old-style, political, out of office (onetime Premier, waiting to become Japan's super-puppet...
Lately, Author MacDonnell has gained notice for himself (and bank) by a blank-verse stand against isolation: "For twelve months past we have called Great Britain coward, traitor, dolt, because she did not jump into a war. We chalked her down a third-rate power, we pilloried appeasement, we covered her with lavish scorn-too old and dead to fight; and when at last she draws the sword, we turn our backs...
...late General Kurt von Schleicher, who was murdered in the Nazi purge by SS Guards, once described von Papen as: "The kind of traitor beside whom Judas Iscariot is a saint...
These concluding words of General Casado were tantamount to disavowing responsibility for Loyalist radicalism. By other junta members Dr. Negrin was called a "perjurer and a traitor" and accused of acting unconstitutionally. In Generalissimo Franco's jubilant territory it was said that Loyalist Spain had at last overthrown the "yoke of Moscow." Supporters of the Negrin Cabinet fled the country. It was obvious that they considered it no longer safe to remain...
Evening's low light: The Duke of Windsor, former King of England, listening to his old friend, Bill Bullitt, say that George Washington would "doubtless have been hanged as a traitor if it had not been for the assistance given him by the French...