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...this Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco broke off diplomatic relations with Chile. The Spanish Foreign Ministry called Chile's Popular Front Government "anarchical" and declared that on June 17 "in the most central square in Chile . . . orators had the vileness grievously to insult Spain and its glorious Caudillo in a speech broadcast by the official radio and at which were present the President of the Republic and several Ministers...
...American insult to the Imperial Japanese Army! . . . A new American atrocity! . . . The entire nation enraged! . . . The American gentleman with a human face but the skin of an animal reveals his hypocrisy...
...them fume and threaten; the right to insult was given us under the constitution. Let them howl in protest; we know it is all propaganda. Let them attack the freedom of our press; we shall defend it to the last. We shall never forsake our unbiased, unfettered press which alone can keep our heads above the maclstrom of distortion and infamy...
...gross exaggeration of the amount of thought-process behind Mickey's statement to treat it thus logically. For when he entered the clinic, his counsellorial dignity suffered the unspeakable insult of being "greeted in the sharp tones similar to those given by an army officer." The effect on such a sensitive and fine-grained temperament as Mickey's must have been cataclysmic, to judge by the tirade it produced against Harvard's subversive influence and against "German refugees giving military orders in a hospital." It was chivalrous of Mickey to try to protect Cambridge Hospital from Fifth-column assault. Nevertheless...
...being put on the defensive off Norway by the German Air Force was injury to the proud British Royal Navy, insult was added last week when a Nazi reconnaissance plane landed on the Kattegat beside a British submarine which, disabled by a German mine, lay on the surface flying a white flag. The submarine's commander surrendered, went aboard the plane, which hailed a patrol boat. German minesweepers cleared a path and the captive Britisher was towed to port intact...