Word: dishonoring
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...recipe for Grade-A propaganda: it must be so exaggeratedly simple that the masses will get the point at once. Gone With the Wind is an exaggeratedly simple account of the brutality of American imperialism. A pack of Yankee cutthroats on a nameless West Indian island frame, cuckold and dishonor a simple, honest, hard-working South American doctor...
...State Department, Pierre Laval tried desperately to cut in on the deal. He made public Vichy's text of what he claimed were the U.S. terms to Robert and his own unasked-for reply. M. Laval was hurt and angry. The U.S., he said, was asking France to dishonor its armistice with Germany. Observers saw something else: Laval and Hitler had been boxed. If they provoked an open break in U.S.-French relations, Laval's position as head of the Vichy Government might become too hot to hold, even with the support of his German masters. State Department...
...Your Excellency: You have already fought to the best of your ability. What dishonor is there in following the example of the defenders of Hong Kong, Singapore, and The Netherlands East Indies...
...Dishonor. In a quavering voice General Gamelin read a declaration which implied that several times he had tried to resign in protest against the lack of war material. Having sacrificed himself, he could not bring dishonor on the Army by giving further testimony. It was obvious that General Gamelin's defense would be that no responsibility could be attached to him for "a regime which has disappeared...
Despite the generosity of the original British terms, the neck-in-noose Government at Vichy bleated of dishonor, made a brief show of refusing them, then dumped the whole mess into General Dentz's lap. After thanking the Vichy forces who took part in the campaign, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain declared to Syria's civilians: "France is going to suffer an eclipse in the Levant...