Word: guiltlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treaty violation. In these electioneering efforts der Führer was assisted by Nazi censors who dealt with incoming dispatches from London in such fashion that from reading German newsorgans one would have supposed that the British people, most British statesmen and many French people considered Germany wholly guiltless and the victim of a few French statesmen of the most hate-poisoned stamp. Actually the guilt of Germany was voted by eleven nations of the League Council without a single dissenting voice...
...views of the President of the United States had reached the ear of the world ... in Fourteen Points! "No people succumbed more completely to the magic power of this fantasy than the Germans. ... We had been dragged into the War, for whose outbreak we were exactly as guiltless, or as guilty, as other peoples. . . . That peace which was intended to be the final stone laid on the cover of the Tomb of War developed into dragons' seed for new struggles...
...Most of the editorial pack first turned on plump, young Governor Hoffman, suspected of putting his foot in the Hauptmann case for reasons of politics and publicity. The Newark (N. J.) Evening News flayed him for "appalling meddling." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch declared that even if he were "guiltless of playing politics ... he has at least affronted the elementary proprieties." The Boston Herald snarled at "the brazenly publicized doubts of New Jersey's unseeing, unperceiving Governor...
...Canada a political party . . . promised $25 a month to every worthy citizen. ... If there is any place on the American continent where the old conservative educational ideals hold full sway, it is the Province of Alberta. There they are innocent of 'modern' educational methods. They are guiltless of progressive education. They center their attention upon reading, writing and arithmetic. Nevertheless the citizens of Alberta voted to pay themselves $25 a month...
...give you this with pleasure," said the President, Vice Admiral Edward Astley Astley-Rushton. handing the sword back to guiltless Rear Admiral Bailey...