Word: traitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Minister Macmillan put in a word for U.S. expediency-a policy which the British hitherto had not warmly approved in North Africa. Political administration and policy had to be secondary to military need. Said Macmillan, explaining the continued dealings with Vichyites: "There is lots of difference between a traitor and one of the weaker brethren who chose the path of least resistance...
...knows exactly what happened to Bob Best. Columnist Dorothy Thompson believes he turned traitor because he is "intellectually lazy" and "ignorant." Author William L. Shirer says Bob Best "stayed too long in Europe." Some had always thought him a queer duck, with a fanatical religious bent. One correspondent who worked with him said: "I always figured he was an eccentric, but I never thought he was a son of a bitch...
...veracity of death the film ranges the long battlefront: a Soviet submarine sights a ship through its periscope and torpedoes her; Soviet ski troops swoop down a hill under fire and some fall. A company of guerrillas storm a village. When the battle ends, they angrily execute a captured traitor...
...chested Oscar Servaczgo, striking Wilkes-Barre anthracite coal miner, sat in his kitchen talking to Philadelphia Record Reporter Johnston D. Kerkhoft. Suddenly a telephone call brought him stunning news. One of his two Navy sons had been killed in the Pacific. Servaczgo burst out: "I ain't a traitor, damn 'em, I ain't a traitor. I'll stay out until hell freezes over...
...people of the U.S. shivered and wondered. Some of them were indeed using the word traitor on the likes of Oscar Servaczgo. In all the Eastern Seaboard there was not enough fuel to keep homes warm, fire factory furnaces, prosecute the war. In East-Central Pennsylvania's anthracite basin extending from Carbondale to Pottsville there was good hard coal aplenty-underground-but some 17,000 striking miners refused to dig it. Other thousands threatened to walk out. The press roared its disapproval or belatedly questioned...