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Temporarily forgotten are the days, only two years ago, when Radio Cairo vilified Hussein as a "traitor by inheritance-the son, grandson and great-grandson of traitors." Overlooked for the moment is the bloody Nasserite rioting in Amman last April, which Hussein put down with guns and armored cars. Instead, the bitter feud has suddenly dissolved in a sweet embrace. The common foe is now the revolutionary Baath regimes in Syria and Iraq, which have smashed Nasser's hopes for hegemony in the Middle East, and are stirring up a revolution in Jordan...
Airman Thompson (Gary Bond), whose nickname is "Pip," has chosen to be conscripted seemingly out of hatred for his father, a general symbolizing all that the Establishment stands for. The officers regard Pip as a traitor to his class and plan to lure or dragoon him back above the salt. His squad mates love to hear stories of Pip's filthy-rich upbringing in a stately 18th century manor, couldn't care less when he tries to ignite their class feeling with tales of the French Revolution, and remain stubbornly suspicious of him as a snob...
...Moscow in 1925 "to learn more about revolutionary ideas." He joined the Komsomol and studied guerrilla tactics at a Red army academy. When Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists in 1927, a letter over Ching-kuo's name appeared in Pravda denouncing his father as a "traitor." He says the letter was a forgery...
Weekend Sailors. A combatively can did man, O'Day is sometimes regarded by fellow sailors as a traitor to his class...
Laval's chain was never totally forged, in part because the British helped drive Mussolini into Hitler's arms during the Abyssinia crisis, in part because disputatious Deputies back in Paris sabotaged his efforts. Laval never forgave either. Ironically, France's No. 1 traitor-to-be fell into views that precisely paralleled those of hero-to-be De Gaulle. He despised the French Parliament, thought France needed a new constitution, and was convinced that he alone could bring all this about...