Archtraitor

Arch`trai´tor


n.1.A chief or transcendent traitor.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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US President Franklin D Roosevelt is warned he will hang by his "gammy leg" from the Statue of Liberty, while "archtraitor" Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister, will be hanged in Whitehall.
PERSPECTIVE: Nazi tricks were 'Pythonesque; Frogs for breakfast, exploding chocolates and a relative of Lord Baden-Powell broadcasting for the Axis powers. They were some of the methods the Nazis used to try and undermine British morale during the Second World War, as the latest tranche of MI5 documents released today to the National Archives at Kew, west London, reveal
Here is First, passionate, stylish, whiplash-smart, "the Rosa Luxemburg of the movement"; Slovo, who as leader of the ANC's military arm Umkhonto We Sizwe would become the most loved, and hated, white man in South Africa; Mandela, "regally defiant," to whom even the jail wardens defer, "as if they realized grudgingly that they were in the presence of greatness"; Fischer-Rhodes scholar, brilliant barrister, scion of "Afrikaner royalty"-who turns his back on white privilege and power, and is despised by the volk as an archtraitor.
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