Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was well-known modern history, but not the sort of thing the Cabinet officers of one nation say about another. The reaction, as expected, was brief and bitter. Said a Foreign Office spokesman for Japan: "Regrettable." Said the semi-official German Deutsche Diplomatisch-Politische Korrespondenz: "The German nation does not want lessons from any quarter on the subject of national freedom, self-determination and its best interests." Wrote Mussolini's spokesman, Virginio Gayda, in Giornale d'Italia: "We should like to believe his words were never uttered, but if they are authentic they constitute...
...cause of Peace, as has been suggested by some students of his diary and letters, Carl von Ossietsky never wavered, said "No!" to friends who had arranged for him to escape to Switzerland before he could be jailed. "If you wish to fight effectively against rottenness in a nation you must do it from the inside," said Ossietsky. "I will not flee abroad. A man speaks with but a hollow voice from across the border...
...natural resource to be left free from State control. In that corner-the private broadcasters who have an estimated $150,000,000 invested in plant, who last year made some $140,000,000 from time sales, and gave a 24-hour free show 365 days to a whole nation...
...disloyalty" to the State was a violation of the 1933 concordat between Church & State-which the Nazis have violated so thoroughly that it is now a dead letter. Wrote Governor Murr: "Bishop Sproll does not recognize, it would seem, that Divine Providence has appointed Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist ideology to save our nation from the grim chaos of Bolshevism. Instead of bowing humbly to God's will, he was continually talking about persecution and martyrdom. I know that Bishop Sproll covets the halo of a martyr. This halo will not be denied him." Bishop Sproll kept...
...same mold of undistinguishable mediocrity, harmless, until it is puffed up as a great American work of art. Herein lies the evil: the Pulitzer Committee by putting its stamp of approval on such flimsy material, sets a standard of mediocrity which is believed and accepted in the nation as the best. Their prizes throw an effective smoke screen over the strong efforts in American writing, permitting persevering incompetents and academic rhymesters to practice their lack of art in the spotlight of public approval. It is true that they stir up public interest, but they focus its attention on second rate...