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...even the critics could force themselves to write that Jeritza's singing had been bad. Explained a nostalgic Viennese: "You can betray the Austrian government any time. But to betray the Opera is treason. Nobody would dare...
Conspirator (M-G-M). The Sally Benson script, based on the Humphrey Slater novel, is more a study of stupidity than treason. Robert Taylor, a wooden-faced major in a British Guards regiment, has been a Red agent since he was 15, apparently because he enjoyed his conspiratorial adolescence in Ireland. He breaks party discipline by marrying Elizabeth Taylor, an American visitor to London, who is portrayed as vain, vapid and addicted to double-takes. Since even his addlepated wife soon catches on that he is a traitor, the party orders Robert to kill her. On a duck hunt...
Consider, for instance, this dramatic scene from "Seeds of Treason," which, the authors say, took place after Chambers' break with Communism...
...short "Seeds of Treason" is not a satisfactory history; it is rather brief for the prosecution. The authors, like many others, believe Hiss a villain, Chambers a saviour. Other reporters, other spectators believe Hiss is the hero and Chambers is the devil. It is highly unlikely that there is a member of either extremist faction emotionally suited to record the Hiss-Chambers mess in the cool, balanced way that history demands
Shawcross concluded with a reminder that Fuchs would have got a different kind of trial had he been accused of treason by the power he served. "It should perhaps be said that this man's confession was made while he was still a free man," said the Prosecutor, "able to come & go as he chose and consult with friends and . . . lawyers...