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...been Marshal Pétain's counselor and Vichy's foremost apologist. On his lapel he still wore Marshal Pétain's badge. "I do not fear facing a firing squad," he cried. "If I had to do it again, I would." He retracted nothing, not even his 1941 words-"De Gaulle is a traitor who commands the scum of the world." He thumped the ledge of the prisoners' dock, proclaimed himself a "patriot," read a seven-hour political harangue against every act of the Third Republic. The court listened wearily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Political Anachronism | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...James was the greatest American writer of fiction. Thirty years ago, he could scarcely get his work published. Twenty years ago he was damned as an expatriate whose talent had withered and died because he left his native land. Ten years ago Marxist critics condemned him as the arch apologist of the ruling class. Now some critics are again saying that James is the greatest of modern novelists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: With Two Countries | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...muddy mountain front, General Dwight Eisenhower himself played the part of apologist for the campaign which he was soon to leave for a bigger one. Flanked by the Fifth Army's Mark Clark and other high officers, the well-spoken man who was still Mediterranean commander in chief talked to correspondents. He took a swing at "armchair critics," then conceded that all had not gone according to plan. His argument covered familiar ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: What Price Success? | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...intellectuals demurred. The literary intellectuals said Kipling did not write poetry but a slick doggerel-a plausible argument. The political intellectuals said Kipling was an apologist for imperialism-a practically unanswerable argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Restoration | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

Erudite Director Alfred Hamilton Barr of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art once asked this question, writing in the days (1930) when the surrealist movement direly needed an apologist in the U.S. Last fortnight, Barr's Museum acquired one of the most important early surrealist paintings. The picture was 55-year-old Italian Giorgio de Chirico's Delights of the Poet, painted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mystery and Implied Rumble | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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