Word: manifestoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lawyer Gandhi promptly recalled his past claims that only a free Indian people can be galvanized into action in a larger war for freedom. In his own crosspatch way he told off the Japanese: "Our offer to let the Allies retain troops in India," he explained in a manifesto, "is to prevent you from being misled into feeling that you have but to step into this country. If you cherish any such idea, we will not fail to resist you with all the might we can muster." But in the next breath he was threatening that "hidden discontent may burst...
Herbert Hoover signed a manifesto in August 1941, which said: "Freedom in America does not depend on the outcome of struggles for material power between other nations...
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...cannot remember having read anywhere in the past years a finer manifesto of the American spirit. It hits hard and clean. It gives me a new faith in our nation and the men who are fighting, and the men who, for religious reasons, are not fighting. . . . On the American front right now a deadly war is being waged between the forces of Fascism, who would suppress our civil liberties, and the forces of democracy and tolerance. All the jingoism and the stale hatemongering of our leaders since Pearl Harbor has sickened me; seldom have I heard a vital statement...
Back in London, the Diaghilevian Esthete Ambrose Silk was about to publish Ivory Tower, a magazine arrogantly devoted to the arts alone and written by him alone, featuring a manifesto in the old avant-garde style of the '20s which insulted everybody and thing in sight. Poppet Green was "painting away like a mowing machine . . . bodiless heads, green horses and violet grass, seaweed, shells and funguses...