Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bullitt (in Paris) : "The President and Secretary of State want immediately everything you can send them about the matter [bombing of Warsaw]. From your military attache and other members of your mission, understand? Categorical declarations, and categorical declarations by all members of the Embassy, as detailed as possible; and then, additionally, declarations by neutral diplomats. They want to have it as a basis, understand? You know what's going on in the United States...
Bullitt: "The matter is simply this: They haven't enough details or material from their reports in order to act, and they need it for their Neutrality Bill fight...
This week, Germany replied with new menace to Britain's step of mounting guns on merchant vessels. "On the ground of self-preservation" and as a matter of "duty" all Nazi commanders were ordered to attack Allied ships without warning. First ship to feel such a stab was the neutral Danish freighter Vendia (bound for Scotland empty to get a cargo of coal which would have made a fine prize had the U-boat waited). Eleven men were killed, six taken ashore by another Danish ship after the submarine had rescued them. Danes were furious. Aside from the coldbloodedness...
...instinctive judgements. Any attempt to erect a standard of morality in art is nothing more than a class-room stunt. It is the old story of individual taste which has and will remain unchanged. But there is one new standard of critical truth which must not be overlooked, no matter how greatly individual tastes may vary: art is beginning to have political and social implications; it is becoming closely intertwined with the earth upon which we walk and the lives which we lead. Consequently, since art is in the process of adopting us, it is only fair that it adopt...
...last of all, can any lasting peace result from this war, no matter who the victor may be? May the world expect another conflict twenty years after the end of the present struggle? An analysis of historical trends indicating fluctuations between periods of war and peace may solve the riddle...