Word: apologia
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...Butler's autobiography betrays no false modesty. It begins with an apologia in which he claims to have been on more or less intimate terms with "almost every man of light and leading who has lived in the world during the past half-century," including British statesmen from Gladstone to Neville Chamberlain, 13 U. S. Presidents. Dr. Butler goes on to make a clean breast of his career as educator, publicist, kingmaker, counsellor to politicians...
Next day Mr. Browder's Daily Worker, along with his apologia, printed the text of a treaty minus escape, complete with commitments against further alliances aimed at either Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin. From then until week's end, the Daily Worker mirrored the dilemma into which Comrade Stalin had pitched Communist Parties of all nations. Its editorialists and columnists preached continued distrust of Nazi Hitler, continued cooperation with anti-Fascist men of goodwill, even a continued boycott of German goods which Soviet Russia was now pledged to buy. As a faithful organ of Soviet doctrine...
Last week that policy was made public. Having promised the Jews a "homeland" and the Arabs an independent State in Palestine, the British in a White Paper as bland as Lord Runciman's apologia for the Czecho-Slovakia debacle, chose to interpret this to mean that the Jews should have about as much "homeland" as they have now achieved in Palestine, but that they should not be allowed to expand to a point of depriving the Arabs of their majority control in politics and land ownership. Jews fumed and charged that once more Great Britain had expediently bowed...
Married. Ellery Sedgwick, 67, longtime (1908-38) Atlantic Monthly editor; to Marjorie Russell, fortyish, daughter of Champion Russell and close friend of the late Mrs. Sedgwick; at North Ockendon, Essex, England. In January 1938 Editor Sedgwick visited Franco's Spain, then wrote a gentlemanly newspaper apologia for Fascist Franco...
...have no farewell speech to make, no apologia to give," John L. Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English and Senior Fellow in the Society of Fellows, told his last class yesterday as he concluded 20 years of teaching at Harvard...