Word: insultable
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...National Student League jumped to the rescue. Tearing the veil of an innocent gesture from Germany's face, it bared the deed in all its enormity. It discovered an insult and a degradation. Harvard is protected...
...However, the swastika wreath is not an insult to the Harvard Chapel alone, it is a brazen and sneering affront to the entire University, for the wreath is an emblem of a regime which has terrorized the students and professors of Germany, and which has reduced the splendid German national culture to an incoherent barbarism. That the friends and representatives of the Hitler government should dare to lay this swastika wreath in the name of peace, at the precise moment when Hitler, throwing aside all pretense, is arming his enslaved nation to the teeth, is a glaring example...
Studying the White Paper they decided that some kind of English insult was evidently being offered to Germany prior to the arrival in Berlin of British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon at the Realm-leader's pressing invitation (TIME, March 11). Nazi honor, they saw, must be satisfied by offering insult for insult. Soon an urgent cable informed Sir John Simon that his visit must be canceled "due to a slight cold with great hoarseness" contracted by Der Reichsführer. The German cancellation carried no expression of regret, no invitation for a later date. To rub in this...
...Jewish shops. Placards announcing 'Jews not wanted' are displayed in cafés and restaurants. 'Jewish students enter here at their own risk,' reads a notice at the door of the Technical School. Jews cannot attend the theatre, opera or motion pictures without risk of insult. Oldtime friends are afraid to visit or greet them in the street. Nowhere else are they so cut off from normal life or subjected to such economic boycott and social ostracism...
...careful examination of the facts leading up to the Borah resolution shows little justification for our attitude. On one hand we openly insult the Mexican Government by senatorial examination of their policy, and on the other hand Ambassador Daniels advances the cause of socialistic education in Mexico by openly commending recent speeches made by the President of Mexico favoring a socialistic State. Mr. Daniels personally is a very charming man. He possesses real gifts as a journalist and a politician, but the situation south of the Rio Grande calls for a genuine diplomat of the highest order, and unfortunately...