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...time a pacifist by conviction. A Conservative by heredity, he earned the undying hatred of Conservatives for bolting to Lloyd George's Liberals. Twenty years later he bolted from the Liberals. He introduced into Parliament many of Britain's most important social measures. Labor called him "traitor." Reason: as Minister of Munitions in World War I, Churchill told striking munition workers that if they were dissatisfied with conditions on the job, they could try conditions at the front...
This was too much for Germany. Though Quisling's name had become a worldwide synonym for traitor, though his domestic political backing had proved illusory, he appeared the only possible German straw man. Press criticism of him was forbidden and Alfred Nilsen, editor of the Norwegian Labor Party's Arbeiderbladet, was jailed for expressing "degrading judgments" of "an exponent of National Socialism...
...rather you would sit somewhere else," quietly said Beverly Vincent. When Sweeney bristled, Vincent added: "You are a traitor." Words passed. Vincent called Sweeney a ... .. . ..... . Sweeney swung...
First is the general usage of such terms as Trojan horse, subversive agents, fifth columnists, etc. It occurs to me that none of these carries the full stigma of the old terms spies and traitors. The full impact of feeling of contempt is lost. One might even consider himself smart in being a fifth columnist, but never in being a traitor...
...press of Paris and London let go with a broadside of invective. "King Quisling," sneered the London Evening Standard. "King of the Fifth Column," echoed the Daily Mirror. In Paris the best that Leopold was called was "traitor" and "felon king." Paris-soir reported that General Walter von Reichenau's peace terms, which Leopold accepted, included the turning over to the Germans of all war materiel intact, free passage of the German Army to the sea. The French Legion of Honor struck Leopold's name from its rolls...