Word: mention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article cites that in 1857, during the Great Mutiny, the Moslems were sewn into pigskins before being shot, but it does NOT mention the Black Hole of Calcutta, or what necessitated, in the opinion of those responsible, drastic reprisals. Nor does it point out that it was the religious fear of pigskin, rather than death, which broke further mutiny...
Again, you cite the case of General Dyer's dispersing a prohibited meeting by firing into the crowd; but you do NOT mention that General Dyer was relieved of his appointment in consequence, and died a broken man-in spite of the fact that many of those best able to judge feel that, if he had not taken his drastic action, once again India would have been torn end to end in mutiny and civil...
Added the President, newspapers sometimes unwittingly spread rumors too. He would mention no names. (But everyone knew that his honeymoon with the U.S. press ended with the first New Deal.) Waving his hand, he indicated that, if he did mention names, he would have to include some of his listeners. But he was not going to do anything about it so long as the public was not fooled; he did not think the press had much influence any more...
While robust Ambassador Admiral William D. Leahy tugged for the U.S., Adolf Hitler threw into the contest Germany's best friend in France, the political contortionist Pierre Laval, a man so abhorred by masses of Frenchmen that no mention of his meeting with Marshal Petain was permitted in Vichyfrench newspapers...
Last week he heard Donald Nelson on the radio mention a shameful corporation that had delayed a contract 26 days. The businessman was furious: Twenty-six days? A bagatelle! The Government had delayed his war project more than three months...