Word: apologia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Apologia for the Left. For laying the specter of Socialism, Attlee shrewdly chose the one spectacular event of his visit: his speech to Congress. He seized the chance to give the U.S. a somewhat oversimple, understandable account of the Labor Party and its purposes...
...famed cartoons, Blimp acts out in black & white, by one class and political reflex after another, the whole tragicomic history of a special kind of British stupidity. The screen's version of Blimp, in rosy Technicolor, is not a Low specimen of humanity at all, but one long apologia for the better side of the Low character. Watching on the screen how the old man got that way, you would never suspect that the Colonel and his kind had anything to do with bringing on the Second World War. Even insofar as Blimp is shown to be old-fashioned...
Chief of Government Pierre Laval was, by reports, in Paris. With him he carried the bulky manuscript of his Apologia Pro Vita Sua. On it he reportedly had worked for a year, scribbling hundreds of pages to prove that he was first & last a Frenchman with the interests of France at heart, after that a pro-Allied, anti-Nazi Frenchman who did the best he could...
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...after another the Ministers of the Crown are building up an apologia for the Empire. These speeches represent not only the timely riposte of bludgeoning from abroad but also a new and welcome upsurge of popular interest in the responsibilities of Empire rule...