Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hitler tantrums are unbelievable until experienced and therefore easy to deny with a show of conviction. Der Führer, in effect, bawled: "No air pact until Germany regains her colonies! No air pact until the lie of German War guilt is wiped from the Treaty of Versailles! No air pact until our air force is stronger than any other in Europe!!!" Tidying up after Hitler, professional diplomats of the Wilhelmstrasse attempted to be smooth. Germany, they said, might enter an air pact with Britain, provided no other country was admitted. Such a proposal was an example of the classic...
Most important political upset was the removal from office of General Vincencio Pérez Soto, Governor of Zulia, by hollow-cheeked Provisional President Eleazar López Contreras. In Zulia lie practically all Venezuela's oil wells. General Pérez Soto was a politico in whom U. S., British and Dutch oil companies had largely invested. He was generally considered to be the strongest man in the country. He took his removal quietly last week-and waited...
...call Major Berry "an unqualified liar." What I did say was that his charge against me was "an unqualified lie." I stand squarely by the statement as I made...
This distinction may seem technical but is none the less real. A man may make a statement which is "an unqualified lie" without the man himself being an "unqualified liar...
...millionaires were not citizens of the United States but were autonomous powers coordinate with the federal government. That they therefore could not be arraigned and tried before the national courts but were subject only to treaty obligations and the processes of international law. and that the present suit could lie only in the World Court at Geneva.* He therefore prayed for a change of venue...