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...Russians disclaim any intent to "Bolshevize" Europe. That, they say, would be politically inadvisable. But they declare: "We will not tolerate a pro-Fascist regime anywhere on the Continent"-and reserve the right to define pro-Fascist. Like Goebbels, though for different reasons, they find the "Red menace" a useful threat. They say: "If you western fellows want to prevent a social revolution in Europe you'd better march in before us rather than after...
...WITHIN OUR OWN CONSCIENCE TO REMAIN SILENT WHILE SO MANY VOICES ARE RAISED AGAINST A MAN WHO ACTED ACCORDING TO DICTATES OF HIS CONSCIENCE. AS MEMBERS OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY WE DENY THE REPRESENTATION THAT WE ARE ASHAMED OF LEW AYRES AND THAT WE WOULD DISCLAIM HIM. WE ARE NOT ARBITRARILY GROUPED AND MADE ONE WITH THOSE WHO APPEAR TO BE USING THIS OCCASION TO POINT OUT THEIR OWN PATRIOTIC VIRTUE. THE PACK HAS TURNED ON LEW AYRES. EXHIBITORS ARE BOYCOTTING HIS PICTURES. EDITORIALS AGAINST HIM APPEAR IN THE TRADE JOURNALS. ABUSE IS BEING HEAPED UPON HIS HEAD...
...message to our fellow Christians" which the Federal Council had issued for World War II. Conspicuously omitting the 1917 declaration that America was fighting "to vindicate the principles of righteousness and the inviolability of faith as between nation and nation," the 1942 message said "we do not disclaim our own share in the events . . . which made it possible for these evil forces to be released," and urged that, "conscious, of our participation in the world's sin, we would be humble and penitent before God . . . and become His instruments for fashioning a free, just and neighborly world...
...Manhattan. Aboard were Crown Princess Martha of Norway and her three children, bound for the haven of the U. S. at the invitation of Mr. Roosevelt; Minister to Norway Mrs. Florence J. Harriman; nearly 1,000 fleeing U. S. citizens. Said Berlin ominously last week: "The Reich Government must . . . disclaim responsibility should any damages be incurred by the ship. The responsibility must be borne solely by the United States Government...
Most irritated by the whole affair were Britain's censors, who had passed the picture before it was retouched, hastened to disclaim it as an official photo. Propaganda-wise, they feared that authentic pictures would be questioned hereafter, that Britain's official air claims might even be doubted...