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Next day, in a city famed for denunciations of reporters, Senator Barkley delivered the most blistering denunciation of Correspondent Manly and the Tribune that Washington had heard in many a day. The gist: that Manly's alleged inside story was "a deliberate, and malicious falsehood out of the whole cloth." Correspondent Manly stuck to his story. Colonel McCormick backed him up with a scorching anti-Roosevelt editorial running almost a column...
...example of this somersault of public opinion after eighteen months of a war-mongering diet, it should be a steadying influence to quote some statements from editorials printed in various newspapers during September, 1939. This is actually what we all believed before we became subjected to a flood of falsehood impregnated with the seeds of hate...
...Louisville Courier-Journal-We are an emotional people; that is why it will be difficult for us to maintain aloofness from the European tragedy... But now with... the flood of propaganda and falsehood sure to afflict us as it did prior to our entry into the World War, our aroused emotions and sympathies may sweep us off our moorings... We must keep our heads cool and preserve a strict and real neutrality. We are not likely to be able to do that by following a policy which many of us favor of professing neutrality, yet doing everything "short...
...story on Mexico in your issue of July 15, you state that the late U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, Henry Lane Wilson, "helped plan the downfall and murder of Francisco Madero in 1913." This is one more repetition of a flagrant falsehood which has persisted for 27 years. I ask TIME's aid in squelching it for good...
...though his conscience were speaking, for Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper had long ago officially denied the charge, Eamon de Valera blurted: "It is a lie to say that German submarines are being supplied with fuel or provisions on our coasts. ... It is known to be a falsehood by the British Government itself...