Word: discreditment
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...that he was doing his wanton best to discredit all plans for world cooperation...
Concerning U. S. neglect of India, Welles stated that the Indian peoples have been assured freedom to choose their government after the war. In his letter, Professor Perry had recited criticisms of the State Department "which we believe unfounded but which . . . may bring unmerited discredit on the State Department...
There was no attempt to discredit the conference's real contribution in unifying Anglo-U.S. plans to bring Hitler's fortress of Europe tumbling down about German ears. But something was missing. The overture to the grand invasion of Europe held no thread of melody for the common man to whistle at his work...
...Tokyo's purpose was to frighten U.S. airmen with threats of savage punishment ("including the death penalty"), Tokyo had failed. If an incidental purpose was to further Berlin's prisoner-propaganda, the Japs had succeeded. If their purpose was to discredit U.S. official spokesmen, they had a certain measure of success. The Office of War Information argued that there were sensible-but secret-reasons for withholding the fact that some flyers had landed in Japanese territory. If so, this did not excuse falsification, and it did not better the plight of the captured pawns...
...their guards attempted to manacle them (after the Dieppe prisoners had been chained by the Germans). The Canadian Government had evidently intended to suppress the story. When the story came out, the Canadian Government made a strong protest to the U.S. State Department. Though the protest seemed designed to discredit the substance of the story, actually Ottawa confirmed the fact that there had been a riot. TIME was roundly rebuked for certain inaccuracies...