Word: traitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quislingesque wine-merchant (Hume Cronyn) who from the first plays ball with the Germans is not just a sniveling traitor. The roots of his spirit are so atrophied that he is sincerely baffled by the loathing of his fellow-prisoners...
...Munich beer cellar to think back to the Putsch that failed just 20 years ago. They had been younger men then, with nothing to lose, and hope had flowed easily. Now Adolf Hitler said they could still hope: "The German people and its soldiers, who have not allowed any traitor chief to arise, are shaping the impregnability of the Reich. . . . The war will be fought fanatically to the end. . . . We can not reach America-but one state [presumably Britain] is in our reach and that we shall hold responsible...
None paid closer heed than soft-faced, whip-lipped Heinrich Himmler (TIME, Oct. 18). As the Minister of Interior, appointed less than three months ago (see cut), he stood alert to nip the rise of "any traitor chief...
...Author Hughes's novel Rostov does not fall to Nazi might alone. In the beleaguered city sat the Russian traitor, Colonel Blazonny. Every night he slid through a secret panel into a secret room, radioed secret information to the Germans. But Boris was after him. Boris was 6½ ft. tall and hair grew in swirls all over his body, but he managed to steal unnoticed in & out of the German lines on NKVD (secret police) missions. Boris did his best, but though Traitor Blazonny fell at last (with five bullets through his body), so did Rostov...
...Foreign Secretary. . . . I feel bound to my Norwegian brothers because they are . . . brothers in the faith. They fight for the ideals that I, too, have sworn to fight for. If for fear of men I should sit a passive onlooker I should be a traitor to my Christian faith, to my Danish mind and to my clergyman's oath. It is better to damage Denmark with regard to Germany than to Jesus...