Word: traitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the masculine world of journalism. Three months ago she reported Lord Haw-Haw's trial in a memorable piece for the New Yorker. Last week, in a 13-column essay in the same magazine, Reporter West covered the eight-minute trial of The Crown v. John Amery, traitor. Her piece showed up the run-of-the-mine court reporter as the deadline-hurried, space-confined newsman he generally...
Later, at lunch, Ribbentrop fretfully asked his fellow prisoners: "What shall I do?" Göring had the oldtime Nazi spirit: "That traitor! That's one Kerl (guy) we forgot to dispose...
...grim years. In October, the King awarded the rare Imperial Order of the Crown of India to Mrs. Florence Amery. Five weeks later the Amerys' elder son stood in the dock at Old Bailey and heard a judge intone:"John Amery, you now stand a self-convicted traitor to your King and country, and you have forfeited the right to live...
Ezra Pound, in Washington awaiting trial for treason (pro-Axis broadcasts from Rome), was freshly reindicted for 19 overt acts, and became the center of a literary flurry in Manhattan. Pulitzer Prizewinner Conrad Aiken considered him "less traitor than fool", E. E. Cummings whipped up a paraphrasing of "To thine own self be true. . . ." ; Louis Untermeyer favored life imprisonment among the works of Eddie Guest. Random House hastily dropped Pound from a forthcoming poetry anthology...
Thus died the man whose name had become a worldwide synonym for traitor. The police had to keep the ashes of his cremated body; his native village refused to accept them for burial...