Word: indirections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official account of the expedition continued: "This afforded us an opportunity of informing ourselves whether they were cannibals; and we did not neglect it. We first tried, by many indirect questions put to each of them apart, to learn in what manner the rest of the bodies had been disposed of; and finding them very constant in one story, that, after the flesh had been cut off, it was all burnt; we at last put the direct question, whether they had not eaten some of it? They immediately shewed as much horror at the idea as any European would have...
...shameful political job to perform. Revolutions and great defeats demand their scapegoats. Elected scapegoats, apparently in cold blood, were Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, onetime Premiers Edouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud and Leon Blum, onetime Ministers Yvon Delbos, Georges Mandel, Cesar Campinchi, Guy La Chambre, Pierre Cot, and their direct & indirect collaborators. The men of Vichy apparently still had a little too much conscience to take the scapegoats' lives. The maximum sentence the Riom court may impose is life imprisonment. Although there is no appeal, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, as Chief of State, has reserved for himself the right of pardon...
Neither I. G. Farbenindustrie nor any other German national have any direct or indirect interest in General Aniline & Film Corporation other than the above...
Last week Japan entered the World War -not explicitly, with a formal declaration and a frontal attack; but deviously, jesuitically, with that unsubtle subtlety which is so peculiarly Japanese. Actually there were two indirect declarations of war: In Tokyo, War Minister General Shunroku Hata told his staff: "We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity." And Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, in a radio speech, defined the opportunity as a chance to enforce what Tokyo papers called an "Asiatic Monroe Doctrine": henceforth Japan would not meddle outside Asia, would tolerate no outside meddling inside Asia...
...direct debt and more billions indirect...