Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supposed to convince Indians that their aspirations will presently be realized; some of it was supposed to reassure Englishmen that nothing of the kind is likely to happen. The archives of the Empire bulge with records of such so-called "English Frauds," most of them successful-for example an "Oath of Fealty" to King George has been adroitly palmed off on the Irish Free State Parliament, members of which would choke before taking the House of Commons' regular "Oath of Allegiance," though everyone knows that "Fealty" is if anything more degrading than "Allegiance...
...This oath, characterized as a "naïve patchwork of contradictory vows," and other more startling revelations of the methods and aims of the Fascist League of America, appeared in a well authenticated article entitled "Mussolini's American Empire" by one Marcus Duffield in a recent issue of Harper's Magazine...