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Treason has many faces, and most of them are familiar to Dame Rebecca West. Her studies of such traitors as Lord Haw-Haw, Klaus Fuchs, Pontecorvo and the Rosenbergs, explored the wide range of motives that can impel a man to betrayal. Sometimes, as in the case of Lord Haw-Haw or Fuchs, the traitor is distinguished from the patriot mainly by a loyalty turned upside down. Sometimes the reason is outside compulsion: John Vassall, a homosexual in the British embassy in Moscow, claimed that he turned informer under threat of exposure by the Russians...
...precedent last year by inviting the Republic of Ireland's Catholic Premier Sean Lemass to Belfast. It was then that Paisley, fearing a sellout to the Catholics, began stumping Ulster's six counties, attacking everyone from the Pope ("old red socks") to the Archbishop of Canterbury ("another traitor"). "O'Neill might as well try to stop Niagara Falls with a teaspoon." Paisley stormed, "as try to stop our Protestant cause." When Queen Elizabeth arrived in Belfast this month to dedicate a bridge, embittered Catholics promised retaliation; and sure enough, a twelve-pound chunk of concrete came crashing...
...P.L.O. ranks are equipped with Soviet weapons, "a tool of international Communism." Shukairy became personal. He accused the Jordan royal family of corruption, claimed that Hussein's brother Prince Mohammed operated an arms-import racket that provided Israelis with weapons. Shukairy's agents began whispering the word traitor against Hussein in Jordan's refugee camps. To a refugee population obsessed with a return to Palestine, such charges go over dangerously well...
...that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunderstroke like that and live." He was, says Kaplan, obsessed with "the rustle and chink and heft of money." He kept a private hate list and added names to it all his years. "A liar, a thief, a drunkard, a traitor, a filthy-minded and salacious slut," he recorded, at 74, of a secretary fallen from his grace. The distinguished fared no better: he called Whitelaw Reid, owner of the New York Tribune, "a skunk, a eunuch, a missing link...
Died. Norman Baillie-Stewart, 57, British traitor twice over, a onetime army lieutenant who served five years at hard labor for passing secret information to the Germans in 1932, later went to Berlin to offer his services to the Nazis and spent World War II as a minor broadcasting clerk (nothing more because the Germans thought he was a spy); of a heart attack; in Dublin...