Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word "unity" means one, not two; one government, not two; and one army, not two. Chiang has said from the beginning and during all these seven years, and reiterated the offer last month, that he will accept them in a coalition government immediately if they will become just a political party-that is, will give up their separate army and their separate government. For us to insist that Chiang Kai-shek reconcile himself to a splitting of his own country and send military supplies to an armed rebellion is to ask him to be a traitor. Of course...
...doctrines that 1) heads of states are immune, and 2) their subordinates are immune because they merely obeyed orders. Said Jackson: "There is more than a suspicion that this idea [of immunity] is a relic of the doctrine of the divine right of kings. ... We do not accept the paradox that legal responsibility should be the least where power is the greatest." Jackson fell back on Britain's 17th Century jurist, Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke, and his declaration to King James I that a king is "under...
...hara-kiri grenade. Thoughtfully Sergeant Brown stopped, took out a cigaret and lit it. The Jap's face brightened. Brown replaced his .45 in its holster, walked up to the Jap and offered him a cigaret. The Jap put down his grenade for a moment to accept the gift . . . Brown went to Manila again...
...decision or tactical bluster? Apparently the reported unofficial Japanese drive for a negotiated peace, launched about two months ago, had stalled against U.S. insistence on unconditional surrender. Apparently the militarist rulers of Japan, though they might be willing to part with most of their conquests in Asia, would not accept a surrender that meant their end. Apparently Premier Suzuki's words spelled out their determination to gird the nation for a hara-kiri resistance...
...Accept or Get Out? Ordained a Baptist, Fosdick showed his opinion of denominationalism by becoming (in 1919) the associate minister of Manhattan's wealthy First Presbyterian Church. There he touched off a controversy between Modernists and Fundamentalists which made Page-One news and rocked U.S. Protestantism to its foundations. One Sunday morning in 1922, Fosdick delivered a blistering sermon, in which he said: "Just now, the Fundamentalists are giving us one of the worst exhibitions of bitter intolerance that the churches of this country have ever seen." He proceeded to state his own Modernist position by questioning the Virgin...