Word: loth
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...first to realize that World War I, with its unprecedented mobilization of national economies, had taught countries new economic tricks and controls they would be loth to relinquish. In 1919 he was British financial adviser at Versailles, resigned in mid-conference. The same year, in his eloquent Economic Consequences of the Peace, he told why the peace treaties would be unworkable. So much of what he said then later came true that men began calling him Cassandra...
...looking neither to right nor left, as though talking into space or lecturing, as he used to before a Russian class in economics. He talked in Russian; at previous conferences he used English. He repeated himself; twelve times he used the phrase "postpone consideration of the question until the loth of April." He evaded rather than answered questions...
Colonel James A. Kilian, former commandant of Lichfield's ill-famed loth Reinforcement Depot, squared his shoulders last week at the court-martial of one of his prison guards, glared at the assistant prosecutor, and rasped...
...dingy courtroom in London's Grosvenor Square was crowded with G.I.s. On its 48th day, the trial of a prison guard from the U.S. Army's loth Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield was still a big attraction for men who remembered the planned brutalities, the beatings, the dosing with castor oil, which had made Lichfield infamous (TIME...
...trial before a U.S. court-martial in London was Sergeant Judson H. Smith-one of twelve men charged with cruelty to G.I. prisoners in the guardhouse of the loth Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield. But last week, as the story of repeated brutalities (TIME, Dec. 31) continued to unfold, lowly Sergeant Smith became almost the forgotten man at his own trial. The accusing finger pointed higher & higher up the chain of command...