Word: concealments
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...your story about Dr. Gisella Perl, who aborted women prisoners in Nazi camps to save them from the gas chambers [TIME, Sept. 20], you omitted [a point] of great importance. Many of these women became pregnant because they were raped by the prison guards, who then had to conceal their violation of their own "racial purity" laws by killing the defenseless women. It is easy for shocked moralists, safe in this country, to condemn Dr. Perl. One wonders how nobly moral they would be if their own wives & daughters were in a similar situation...
...their part, the German students seemed most anxious to hear about life in the U.S. But some could not conceal their disappointment when they learned that their new professors were planning to teach ordinary, old-fashioned subjects. They had been hoping to hear about atomic energy...
...announcement from Albany was carefully phrased to conceal the Dewey-men's concern. Said Dewey: "The time has come for a frank and blunt statement of the complex and serious problems confronting our nation and the world. . . . The national Administration has failed in its duty of frank discussion. I propose to bring before the American people the facts as I see them and the solutions I believe necessary...
...Prague, death clothed Jan Masaryk with a renewed dignity. Two weeks before, Prague residents had muttered: "He's no fighter. Must be staying because he likes the job." But while his body lay in state in Czernin Palace, people did not conceal their feelings. Five peasant women leaned over a balustrade in the palace; one of them said loudly: "The damned, damned Communists killed him. They are worse than the Nazis...