Word: dishonorably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show-down on the death of onetime Chancellor General Kurt von Schleicher, shot with his wife by Nazis during the Blood Purge (TIME, July 9). The General's regiment has demanded that either something be proved against von Schleicher, so that his name can be stricken in dishonor from the regimental rolls, or that the General's innocence be acknowledged, his assassins punished. In the State Opera these demands of military honor were satisfied, so the rumor ran, by Nazi admissions that General and Frau von Schleicher were innocent, Nazi assurances that the guilty had been punished. Moreover...
...Adapted from Claude Farrère's novel La Bataitte, the tale involves a "neutral" British observer who has the run of a Japanese flagship, the Japanese commander's unhesitating use of his dutiful wife to get naval secrets his country needs, his final expiation of this dishonor. Aside from the extravagances of the plot, the pictorial treatment of The Battle is nearly perfect...
...secession, and deprecating war, I could take no part in an invasion of the Southern states.'' But once his decision was taken he indulged no regrets. The war over, he could say: "I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor. And if it all were to be done over again, I should act in precisely the same manner." Biographer Freeman allows Lee high marks as a strategist and commander, but thinks he had weaknesses as both. Lee was sometimes too much of a gentleman, says Freeman: by not standing...
...Tell me, Herr Graf," said the Chancellor, "what I can do to insure French security and I will do it willingly, if it does not bring dishonor or menace to my country...
Last December England paid its installment in full, hoping that this lone honor would give power to its pleas for cancelling the account. This winter will find the situation altered, with an English government unwilling to assume the political dishonor of being the only one not to default. The United States, having taken neither official satisfaction from the full payment of December, nor official umbrage at the token of June, has left it in the able hands of Mr. Oltamberlain to shift from business ethics to hard reality. America must make the same change in its own attitude...