Word: apologist
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Recently there were signs that others were not so impressed with the Duce's doings. Editors, including the intellectual apologist Giuseppe Bottai, stayed in office despite criticisms of the Fascist regime unheard of before the war. Bottai used an oblique technique of presenting "demands from the soul of Italy," for which he personally would take no responsibility. One of these demands was for "competent political government, inspired as far as possible by a sincere desire to serve," another for "more vigorous progress toward social justice...
...such youngster is beknighted Nobel Peace Prizewinner Sir Norman Angell. At 68 Sir Norman has written 32 books, sat in the British Parliament, worked five years in the U.S. as a ranch hand. The British Empire's most noted apologist in America, Sir Norman's latest views on the post-war world have caused the Book-of-the-Month Club to select Let the People Know as its February choice along with Tregaskis' Guadalcanal Diary...
...Government's apologist, Sir Stafford Cripps replied in generalities, seemed tired. His speech not only failed to raise his political star, but, many felt, substantially lowered it. But while Sir Stafford, as the Government's mouthpiece, disappointed many, the leftish weekly Tribune, which Sir Stafford founded, voiced the clamor of millions of Britons...
Eugene Talmadge, flogging-apologist Governor of Georgia, threw himself into a conga on a slick dance floor, broke two ribs, returned to duty taped stiff as a mummy...
...tortured 2,000-mile chain of fronts from the Yellow River to the upper end of the Burma Road. The history of that chain of fronts is unique and anachronistic in World War II-there for 30 weary months has been positional warfare. China's foremost philosopher-apologist, Lin Yutang, wrote last week: "If Japan was able to report gains almost every month, why is it that in the last two and a half years Japan has made a total advance of not more than 250 miles, and then only at two points...