Word: grovelings
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...will find the mark on their homes and will wonder whether the Red arm of the MVD is really long enough to protect them. Ordinary citizens, seeing an F, will know they are not alone, that there is more to be done against inhumanity than simply to cower and grovel...
...efficacy of burn salves.) "I accuse the system which made me-a harmless man by nature-into a criminal against humanity." Only dandified, cadaverous Willy Shubert, who had once earned a medal and a holiday in Italy for helping to kill 18,000 Russians in three months, refused to grovel. "I killed men on orders," he boasted, "and I killed men without orders." Sachsenhausen's commander in chief, pig-eyed, bulletheaded Anton Kaindl, more than made up for Willy's outburst. "I confess my heavy guilt," he told his judges, "and my sincere thanks go to the Soviet...
Strong political appeals are also madi to the Chinese. Japanese propaganda de clares that the Allies are not fulfilling their promises of aid, that U.S. forces live like kings while Chinese troops grovel like beggars. Whereas the Japanese economic tactic was once plunder, it is now construction and trade. The Japanese armies lash out, not to demolish the Chinese armies, but to scorch Free Chinese earth, as in the Lake District. There are also appeals to the future: whereas the Allies have promised to give up extraterritoriality after the war, Tojo's government announced that on March 30 Japan...
...Pandit Nehru, treating Chiang like a spokesman of John Bull, replied that, "India will never grovel before the Japanese, but will utilize passive resistance." He added, however, that"... the moral factor is the dominating influence in this war, and it would make an immense difference if India and like countries were free." When he said this, he knew well that all India had ever gotten from the British was a series of double-crosses. During the last World War, India was promised "a greater degree of freedom." Then, at the Treaty of Westminster in 1931, the British conveniently forgot this...
...Rothschild, who arrived in the U. S. by Clipper with $1,000,000 worth of jewels in a little bag, would return to France and the eager hands of Chief Heinrich Himmler's ransoming Gestapo was not expected. Other estates were also confiscated in the effort to grovel for Nazi favor, including those of Louis Rosengart, manufacturer of France's "baby Fords," and famed Journalists Genevieve Tabouis, Andre Geraud ("Pertinax"), Pierre Lazareff and Henri de Kerillis...