Word: traitorousness
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Pettifogging is countered by perjury. In return for the attorney-generalship of Wales, a fair-weather friend (John Hurt) trumps up evidence that More is a traitor. "Why, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world," the doomed man murmurs with incredulous irony. "But for Wales...
...rally, a jeering mob of 500 swarmed around him, pummeling, kicking and finally spitting on him. When police finally got Holt to his car, a few diehards threw themselves across the road. The follow ing night at a Melbourne rally, demonstrators were at it again, chanting "Judas!" and "Traitor!" "If the Labor Party cannot control these demonstrations," shouted an exasperated Holt, "what chance have they in controlling our destiny?" Most of Australia's 6,000,000 voters got the point. At week's end, as the election returns piled up, Holt's coalition had gained four seats...
...Brighton church, but the most bitter criticism came from trade unionists within his party. They argued that the whole labor movement would die if unions no longer had the right to bargain for higher wages. Six hundred auto workers massed outside Wilson's hotel in Brighton. "Wilson, you traitor!" they shouted. Inside the Labor conference, Frank Cousins, the boss of Britain's biggest union, the Transport and General Workers, fumed defiance. "We shall now be in conflict with the law," he declared. "Because when the law is unfair, trade unionists since time immemorial have opposed...
Kamensky's exposure and murder are engineered by Vassili Chubinov, himself a revolutionary and terrorist-and, to be sure, a traitor as well. Chubinov is surely the most appealing anarchist ever conceived. Even his ungainly figure is sketched with sympathy, down to his very overcoat, "hanging on the door in obvious deformity, so badly cut that it did not even fit the air." To him, conspiracy is "a game he happened to enjoy ... his kind...
This engaging traitor steals the show from Kamensky-but not without blunting the purpose of Dame Rebecca's book, which was to explain the double agent's rationale. Kamensky had a real-life counterpart, one levno Aseff, who operated around the turn of the century, accepting missions from Russian revolutionaries as well as from the Czar. The abstract motivation that Dame Rebecca gives to Kamensky would have baffled such a man as Aseff...