Word: traitorousness
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...tempered gentleman at the head of an office saying that Communists were swine and that if they did not behave themselves they would be shot." ''Not so," replied Putzy. ''Did you not also," Sir Patrick continued, "say that 'Catholic priests are swines and traitors-swines, all swines! All Catholics are swines?' " To this Dr. Hanfstaengl fervently replied: "Preposterous! . . . Such a remark would include the present Leader of Germany, Chancellor Adolf Hitler, who is also a Roman Catholic." The best Sir Patrick could do was to coax Putzy to admit that when Lady Listowel called...
...other four prizes (Literature, Medicine, Physics, Chemistry) are determined by Swedes. Three weeks ago the Committee took pained notice of a story in the Schwarze Korps, official organ of Adolf Hitler's special guard, warning the Peace Prize Committee "not to provoke the German people by rewarding this traitor to our nation. We hope that the Norwegian Government is sufficiently familiar with the ways of the world to prevent what would be a slap in the face of the German people...
Twelve times a traitor was spread-eagled on the ground. Twelve times an executioner with a plaited bull whip laid on until quivering flesh and muscles came off in strips and the bones of the black man's carcass gleamed white in Death. After the twelfth horror, Harar's market place resumed its normal function, jammed with horse bargainers who ignored a pack of mangy dogs sniffing hungrily at bloody spots on the cobbles which they had almost licked clean...
What if Signor Emanuel should be shot as a spy? But the queasy fears of Rome correspondents on that score were scotched by a Government spokesman at Italy's Foreign Office who grimly remarked: "The only thing that saves Emanuel from being shot in the back as a traitor is the fact that Italy was not at war at the time of his arrest...
...years ago returned him to Parliament after he deserted the Labor Party and formed the National Government only because he was unopposed in Seaham by a Conservative candidate and because the Laborite coal miners' wives voted for silver-haired, throbbing-voiced Ramsay while their husbands called him a traitor blackleg, and worse...