Word: apologia
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...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...
...Apologia for Optimism. The Gissimo had his reasons: the day he made his statement (but, significantly, the day before it was announced) three top-ranking U.S. generals-Brereton of the U.S. Air Forces in India, Chennault of the A.V.G., Stilwell of Burma-met with the Gissimo in Chungking. Two of them have long been strongly pro-Chinese; two of them are airmen. What they said was not announced, but obviously they discussed U.S. air aid to China. The next day, informed sources in Chungking were saying: "Swarms of American bomber and fighter planes are coming to China...