Word: doubletalk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, which might be read as critical doubletalk: "Some stupid Germans dare to ask why Hitler suddenly discovered that Stalin and Molotov were criminals, whereas only two years before we had signed a friendship pact with Russia. These Germans also remark that German propaganda should make no mention of the cruel bloodshed at LwÓw, Dubno, Vilna and Riga, maintaining that Germany is responsible-having given these territories ... to Russia. These regrettable Germans, with their uncrushable ideals of impartiality, unwittingly become solicitous for Churchill and we must deal energetically with them...
...friend who remembered hearing them many years ago in "Hell's Half Acre" in St. Louis. Henry printed the song, remarked its similarity to the current No. 1 sheet-music seller, the No. 2 ditty of the NBC and CBS networks, The Hut-Sut Song. This doubletalk, mock-Swedish "serenade" was written by Ted McMichael (of the singing "Merry Macs"), Jack Owens, Leo V. Killion. The song goes as follows...