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Which means it will probably prevail in a confirmation hearing but lose in the court of public opinion, vanquished by Weld's campaign for libertarian martyrdom.
Bavaud's martyrdom had been shrouded in silence by the Swiss authorities during the war, but it was now to be commemorated with a plaque on the house in Neuchâtel where he was born.
But Chambers had his own secrets and hidden motives--his pathological drive toward martyrdom, his homosexuality (the sin of sins in the Cold War era, routinely treated as a synonym for treason), and his undoubted obsession with Hiss.
Moreover, peer pressure certainly appears to have been a factor in swaying recruits to choose "martyrdom."
Yeats ("the greatest poet of the twentieth century"), urging the House managers to "be secret and exult" in their martyrdom.