Word: highhandedness
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The smugly sycophantic Attorney General, Mr. Biddle, who is always available, it seems, with any legal interpretation desired by his masters, contributed his bit to this classically European situation by his condescending remark that Mr. Avery "put up quite a fight." Pleading the "war effort" is scarcely any excuse for...
Gaullists were happy over the tide of events. But Frenchmen of other sympathy were troubled. In the Algiers Consultative Assembly, Communists and others did not like General de Gaulle's highhanded disposal of General Giraud, worried over his program for liberated France. A striking parallel developed between the extreme...
This smart move permanently preserves one of the notable performances of recent years-Paul Lukas' portrayal of Kurt Muller, the mild-looking German engineer who has long been risking his neck in Europe's anti-Nazi underground, but is patronized by his wife's rich Washington family...
Laval is the father of Vichyfrench collaboration with Hitler and served as Vice Premier and Foreign Minister for the first six months after the fall of France. But in December 1940 Pétain found him at once so unpopular and so highhanded in his pro-Naziism that he cast...
German Ambassador Dr. Edmund Baron von Thermann hastily announced the dispatch of two confidential aides to Misiones "for the purpose of conducting an investigation" into "alleged Nazi activities and highhanded police methods against peaceful German residents." On arrival, the Germans stirred up jurisdictional disputes between national and local police.