Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...direction is a masterpiece of selecting and omitting. Cooper's inevitable denunciation scene wherein the simple but honest hero tells off those who have manipulated him for Evil Ends is held down to only a few lines. Miss Stanwyck is restrained from whining and blubbering interminably, as is her wont when directors give her freere...
...help us save "The Americas" and all that they stand for in the fight against the foreign forces of evil and destruction...
Democracy v. Axis. "For the best part of 20 years the youth of Britain and America have been taught that war was evil, which is true, and that it would never come again, which has been proved false. . . . The youth of Germany, of Japan and Italy have been taught that aggressive war is the noblest duty of the citizen. . . . This naturally has placed us . . . at a disadvantage which only time, courage and untiring exertion can correct...
...Transocean News Service, to stomp out Nazi propaganda agents. But German Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann, whose deportation was asked three months ago by the Chamber of Deputies, continued as active as ever. Two henchmen representing the Federation of German Cultural & Beneficent Societies turned Castillo's "speak-no-evil" policy to their own advantage, refused to testify before Deputy Raúl Damonte Taborda's "Dies Committee" on the spending of more than $4,000,000 during the past year...
Just to proceed on a victory campaign won't do that. The basic causes of this war, as of the last war, lie a good deal deeper than the evil genius of Hitler, or the Kaiser, or the Emperor of Japan. It is pretty well accepted that the last war was rooted in imperialism, in the inability of great industrial states to satisfy their productive capacity in any other way but expansion. Britain and France won the control of world economic opportunity. The natural industrial unit of Germany was blocked from it, and Europe was split up in such...