Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, U. S. politicians and publicists have agitated the question of War Guilt. Who is "to blame" for taking "us" to war? No more than anyone else does TIME know the "true" answer to such a loaded question. But to TIME the following is the beginning of sense: the U. S. people went to war because, after more than two years of intense public discussion, the U. S. Government, duly and recently elected by the U. S. people, decided to declare war. Many and complex were the causes leading to this decision made by the President and Congress. To hang...
...intangibles delayed him. Why had he stopped? He would have had the advantage of war if he had plunged to seize Danzig, the Polish Corridor, Upper Silesia and the other sections that he said were his, the moment the shock took effect. But he would also have had the guilt of launching...
...found that Germany 1) did indeed war by sabotage on the U. S. and other neutrals; 2) caused the Black Tom and Kingsland disasters (killing three men and a child) ; and 3) by continuously presenting perjured testimony, through its Foreign Office officials tried to hide the proof of its guilt. Therefore, said he, Germany must pay some $50,000,000 in accrued damages and interest (principally to Lehigh Valley Railroad, which owned Black Tom, Canadian Car & Foundry Co., which owned the Kingsland plant, and Bethlehem Steel Corp., maker of some of the sabotaged shells...
...laymen, as Freud's theories spread, he emerged as the greatest killjoy in the history of human thought, transforming man's jokes and gentle pleasures into dreary and mysterious repressions, discovering hatreds at the root of love, malice at the heart of tenderness, incest in filial affections, guilt in generosity and the repressed hatred of one's father as a normal human inheritance...
...Stalinists on the charge of being "paid agents of Franco." Such men as Ignazio Silone, John Dos Passos, and James Farrell; to mention a few, protest this. Several months ago Loyalist courts cleared the POUMists of this charge and branded as "crude forgeries" the "proof" of their guilt...