Word: disown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against Mihailovich. What everyone, particularly Moscow, had long known about Yugoslavia, Winston Churchill now broadcast: The forces of Draja Mihailovich had "made accommodations with [Axis] troops. ... In Marshal Tito the Partisans have found an outstanding leader, glorious in the fight for freedom." Thus Churchill disowned the Royal Yugoslav-Cairo Government's support of General Mihailovich. But the Prime Minister did not disown that Government's titular head, 20-year-old King Peter II. Said Churchill: "We cannot disassociate ourselves in any way from [King Peter]." The implication held a hope: that Peter might yet break away from...
...Parliament roasted playboy Member Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid for playing with Doris in Hawaii during London's blitz.) Cromwell denied the desertion and cruelty charges on which Doris won her Reno case, demanded that the New Jersey courts nullify the divorce. He also recommended that Doris herself disown it as a fraud...
Error Three. Although both Democrats and Republicans promptly tried to disown Aurelio, there was no legal way to take his name off their ballots. The two parties swung their official backing elsewhere-but Democrats favored one opponent, Republicans another. Thus the anti-Aurelio vote, whipped up by every New York newspaper, was divided into impotence...
...have made common cause with Great Britain. You cannot therefore disown responsibility for anything that her representatives do in India. You will do a grievous wrong to the Allied cause if you do not sift the truth from the chaff whilst there is yet time. Just think of it. Is there anything wrong in the Congress demanding unconditional recognition of India's independence? It is being said: 'But this is not the time.' We say: This is the psychological moment for that recognition. For then and then only can there be irresistible opposition to Japanese aggression...
...echoes of U.S. criticisms (that Willkie had no right to make such moral commitments for the U.S.) reached Chungking, Willkie snorted, "I speak for myself alone and I say what I damn please." When the subject was put up to Mr. Roosevelt in press conference, he did not disown Willkie. Said the President instead: he thought Wendell Willkie had well performed the jobs assigned...