Yet Mr Filbinger had been a Nazi party member; and there is evidence of his involvement in sentencing to death a German navy deserter in occupied Norway.
Speaking to an audience of new police officers in Budapest (link in French) he said that anyone joining a paramilitary or para-state force such as the Magyar Garda would be considered a "deserter" (link, similar content, in Hungarian)Little wonder then, that Jobbik is warning of Fidesz plans to destroy the party once and for all.
MPs who still curse Ramsay MacDonald, a Labour prime minister, for entering government with the Tories in 1931 were hardly likely to follow a deserter, let alone one as relatively right-wing as Mr Purnell.
Russia, according to Lithuania's Prosecutor General, had asked for help in investigating another "deserter" over the summer—one of a series of such requests, officials say.
The book carries his on-the-spot sketches.There are walk-on parts for many eminent Victorians, including Leslie Stephen, father of Virginia Woolf, and Henry Morton Stanley, the "serial deserter" and Dr Livingstone's saviour, whose ne'er-do-well son Robert was killed trying to escape from a prisoner-of-war camp.
But his campaign has been marred by repeated slips, including his failure to rebut comments by Michael Moore, a left-wing firebrand, that Mr Bush was a deserter during the Vietnam war.
He is believed to be the first American army deserter ever to be deported from Canada.In their first meeting since their relations turned sour last autumn, the presidents of Colombia and Venezuela agreed to make up.
But the guerrillas also agreed to give up this habit of "miraculous fishing"—stopping all vehicles and grabbing the cream of their occupants as hostages and the president persuaded doubters to give the peace process one more chance.A similar last-minute deal in January, after an alleged FARC deserter hijacked an aircraft with 30 people on board, in the end bore little fruit.
Sceptics, including former members of Mr Bergdahl's platoon, toured TV studios to call him a deserter who walked off his base unarmed, and they allege cost at least six comrades their lives during months of searching.
Marshall next made westerns centred on, variously, a cavalry scout fighting Indians (Pillars of the Sky, 1956), an army deserter teaching women how to fight Indians (The Guns of Fort Petticoat, 1957), and a sheep rancher and a cattle baron who love the same woman (The Sheepman, 1958).
Another deserter was the French knight Stephen of Blois, who was cut off from the main body of the army by Kerbogha's forces and judged, not unreasonably, that the Crusaders were doomed.
