Word: condemnations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Here is a devil who in the mere spasms of his pride and lust for domination can condemn two or three millions-perhaps it may be many more-of human beings to speedy and violent death. . . . Ah, but this time it was not so easy. . . . For the first time Nazi blood has flowed in fearful flood. Perhaps a million and a half, perhaps two millions of Nazi cannon fodder have bit the dust on the endless plains of Russia...
Almat, meanwhile, was torn by internal bickering, indecision, by pleas of President Oosenay for intervention by the King of Sweden. Leader of Almat's peace party was a Senator Speeler ("I condemn this display of force by our foolhardy Government at this critical juncture. . . . It is as though we were at war. ... I cry for peace and greater social gains"). So war came and Kotmk assaulted the hastily assembled Almat army...
...representatives, for having failed so miserably in teaching our southern neighbors to like "north" Americans, it seems hardly necessary to refute the asinine charges made against us-in general. My experience has been limited to the past 15 years, but even that short period should better qualify me to condemn my fellow-countrymen down here than one with the ripe experience of one year's stay among Argentines and Brazilians...
...Matsuoka's ingenious explanation to the democracies included the fact that there could be no such thing as a war between Japan and China because there was no such thing as China. "It is a conglomeration of disunited nations and hostile chieftains." The 43 nations voted to condemn Japan; Siam, the 44th, abstained. Mr. Matsuoka gathered his papers, stalked out, his suite scuttling after him. His arguments had failed to convince, but Japan got away with the Manchuria grab and the note he set at Geneva was echoed later by Italy over Ethiopia and by Germany over the Rhineland...
...teachings of our elders had a great effect on us. ... They were the so-called 'Lost Generation'; they were disinclined to work actively for democracy. Now they turn around suddenly to condemn us for the same indifference and frustration...