Word: flinch
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Having offered India post-war dominion status through Sir Stafford Cripps, the British were standing pat. Crusty Leopold Stennett Amery, Secretary of State for India, reiterated his Government's support of eventual Indian self-government, but warned India that the Government "will not flinch from their duty" to combat civil disobedience. There was a counter-threat that, if the British jailed all Congress leaders, the aged and frail Gandhi might die a martyr's death. Sir Stafford hinted that Gandhi's actions were treasonable...
...England. Cosmo Gordon Lang has often denounced the "anti-God atheism of Moscow" and he helped maneuver his King into abdicating rather than permit a divorced woman to sit on the throne of England. But Cosmo Cantuar is a shrewd politician. When compromise is expedient he does not flinch from it and he can always find good reasons for his action. His reasons last week...
...wanted to know: How many live Jerries are in Crete? How long can they hold on with nothing but air-carried supplies and arms? Will our fleet keep seaborne support at a distance? Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, who had long since proved himself a fighting man, did not flinch from his patent duty-to interpose strong forces between Crete and Greece and stop whatever came by sea. But sending his ships into those narrow waters was precisely what the Germans wanted. Dive-bombers went for the fleet...
...estimate. > Committee Counsel Hugh Fulton declared that Alcoa had "refused" to make the deliveries (particularly to Mr. Reynolds' company, which had previously processed Alcoa aluminum and was then looming as a competitor). Said Mr. Gibbons, denying the charges: "You use such hard words, Mr. Fulton, you make me flinch...
...people, waiting for them to lead him, is not democracy but demagogy. To act as if the people had to be manipulated is to deny the very virtues on which rests the hope of democracy; it is to think that free men will shrink from the truth and flinch in their duty...