Word: apologist
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Stepping off the Queen Elizabeth with his wife, Britain's Professor Harold Laski, a longtime apologist for Communism, sadly confessed: "I am deeply grieved by the Russian treatment of Czechoslovakia and by what little I know about the Russian treatment of Italy in next month's election...
Stewart believes that the villain of the piece is Dean Carl Ackerman of the Pulitzer-endowed Columbia School of Journalism, which gives the awards. He calls Ackerman "an academic apologist for the A.N.P.A., which is business-minded . . . and suspicious of change...
...Wallace become an apologist for Stalinism? Macdonald concludes that "a large power-mass like the Soviet Union exercises a tremendous gravitational pull on an erratic comet like Henry Wallace. ... It is not true that Henry Wallace is an agent of Moscow. But it is true that he behaves like one. . . . Wallace has made a career by supplying to the liberals a commodity they crave: rhetoric which accomplishes in fantasy what cannot be accomplished in reality...
Braden's insistence that Argentina fulfill the last letter of her anti-Nazi commitments was paralyzing State's Latin American division. Messersmith had attacked his job of smoothing U.S.-Argentine relations with such gusto that he was beginning to look like an apologist for President Juan...
...historic week for Argentina. It marked the official end to the war-born feud between the U.S. and Argentina-and brought with it the resignations of Juan Domingo Perón's archfoe, Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden, and his good friend and "apologist, dyspeptic Ambassador George Messersmith (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The week was also the end of Perón's first year as President...