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Hitler's first mistake in diplomacy was deceiving the British Prime Minister, for this was the one thing needed to awaken the English people to the realization that German politics were based upon deceit, according to Dr. William Hermanns in a talk in Emerson Hall last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Militarism and Deceit Guide German Policy | 8/28/1942 | See Source »

Suddenly Emily's little world is tumbling about her ears: for Harry and her madcap sister Janice are in love. Emily's talent for self-deceit teases off the denouement to a point where New Year bells are ringing, a strike boils over, a greathearted young organizer is killed by his own men, and Emily learns not only to hear again but to realize that she has been trying to shackle an unwilling fiancé with her deafness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Rebinding | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...small deceit, or any sinful games...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: THE LIVING EXPLORE THE DEAD AT PEABODY | 5/27/1942 | See Source »

...democracy allowed Jock McGovern and the other two Independent Laborites, Campbell Stephen and James Maxton, their day in Parliament. They blamed the war on capitalist greed. They attacked Prime Minister Churchill as a "commercial imperialist." Jock McGovern called the Churchill-Roosevelt Atlantic Charter "one of the grossest pieces of deceit in modern times" since "it is to be applied to the nations that have been overrun by Hitler while the independent government which it proposes to give them is denied to territories overrun in the past by Britain." He said that anything except guaranteed "independence of our own colonial peoples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Very Free Speech | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...favorable' notice (three or more bells) to all so-called 'big pictures' reviewed by me. . . . Had I been willing to compromise my own honest opinion ... I might have continued my CBS association. . . . But I would have moved about with a hanging head, ashamed of my own deceit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Censored Bellwether | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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