Word: turncoat
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...word from the most promising source of information about Hess: Winston Churchill, who had promised to explain all to Parliament. But already it was evident that Hess's flight had disconcerted Germany too much for it to be an elaborate ruse; that he was no ordinary turncoat eager to aid his country's enemies, or the British would not have been so puzzled; that Hess's peace plan, if he had one, had not a slender chance of winning acceptance...
...Mass. went handsome Paul V. McNutt, onetime Presidential aspirant himself, whose throat was last year neatly slit by New Deal candidate-assassins. Keynoting the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention, Mr. McNutt described the Republican policy as giving business complete license to operate any way it likes, denounced Willkie as a turncoat Democrat who has become "the Nation's Number One Roosevelt Hater." Even Boss Flynn finally announced he would emplane for the West Coast, see how things were going. In tones of ruthless triumph he thundered: "We must not only win, but win by so big a margin that...
...with rousing and arming Ethiopian exiles in Kenya, the Sudan and the border hills, is Ras Birru, a, fierce, black-wooled little general who fought the Italians under Haile Selassie's late War Minister Ras Mulugheta and refused to surrender even when urged by Haile Selassie's turncoat son-in-law, Ras, Gugsa, who still governs the Tigrai region in the north...
...spring 1940 against Chinese forces on the plateau in northern Hupeh and southern Honan near Hankow, bomb-gutted "Chicago of China." Object was to win a victory spectacular enough to justify final and official recognition by the Imperial Japanese Government of their Chinese puppet ruler at Nanking, multiple-turncoat Wang Ching...
...CHINA Tale of a Turncoat...