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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...
Camp v. Camp. Many a Friend believes that Philosopher Blanshard has "outrun his Guide" and landed plump in the middle of an "unsoundness." But there is little chance that Quakers will disown him. His views too clearly reflect the peculiar conflicting feelings of Friends toward World War II. Several Quaker families have one son in uniform, another in a C.O. camp. One Philadelphia Meeting has as many young members in one as the other, corresponds with them all. Last spring a Long Island Meeting wrote this facing-both-ways sentiment into its minutes: "We hold in equal respect any member...
...President could disown Senator Pepper's belligerent cries, he could hardly disown the remarks of three members of his own Cabinet...