Word: condemns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Heresy. U.S. Catholics were deeply hurt when Leo XIII, in an Apostolic Letter to Baltimore's Cardinal Gibbons in 1899, at last felt it necessary to condemn heretical "Americanism." Gist of the alleged errors: "Spiritual direction . . . was less necessary since in an era of liberty, the Holy Ghost would guide the individual soul. . . ." U.S. bishops loudly denied that such heresy had ever tainted U.S. Catholicism...
...entire German General Staff and High Command (some 114 top generals and admirals) for cooperating with the Nazis and plotting aggressive war beyond the normal duties of a patriotic officer. Said Assistant Prosecutor Colonel Telford Taylor, U.S.A.: "We respect the distinguished profession of arms. . . . We do not condemn a man for being a locksmith, but we do condemn him for taking advantage of his profession to break into his neighbor's house...
...weakest point in his brief. Said he to his U.S. British, Russian and French colleagues: "The ultimate step in avoiding periodic wars ... is to make statesmen responsible to law. And let me make clear that while this law is first applied against German aggressors, the law . . . must condemn aggression by any other nation, including those which now sit here in judgment...
...unpleasant female. This, of course, leads Miss Crawford into all sorts of difficulties, but she never realizes to the bitter end that it all would be much neater and happier if she killed her daughter about a third of the way through the movie. The film's detectives might condemn her, but the audience would...
...German writer appeals to humanity to condemn the brutal sadism of the Austrians, and they indict, in their righteous anger, the sub-human cruelty of any people who could devise a concentration camp as an instrument of state control...