Quisling

Quisling: a person who collaborates with an enemy. After Vidkun Qisling, Norwegian war-time leader of a Nazi collaborationist regime during the WW2.

Image: Vidkun Quisling on the cover of Dahl's biography

QUISLING

Imagine
that your life's
achievement is

to give the world
a brand new word for
grovelling traitor

(a nomen of shame)
for that new word
is your name!

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Quisling

1. From WW2 - The Times' editorial asserted: "To writers, the word Quisling is a gift from the gods. If they had been ordered to invent a new word for traitor... they could hardly have hit upon a more brilliant combination of letters. Aurally it contrives to suggest something at once slippery and tortuous."

2. Citation (Quisling Quote] : " A vile race of Quislings -to use a new word which will carry the scorn of mankind down the centuries- is hired to fawn upon the conqueror, to collaborate in his designs and to enforce his rule upon their fellow countrymen while groveling low themselves."

- Winston Churchill, address to the Allied Delegates at St. James's Palace on 21 June 1941