Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this story than on its author. Willie admitted that he had been known at various times as Morris Bioff, William Berg, Harry or Henry Martin, Mr. Bronson. Then Correa went into Bioff's testimony on previous occasions, got him to admit to one lie after another given under oath. When the total reached six, Judge John Clark Knox interrupted: "Don't you feel bound by the sanctity of an oath...
...study for the Congregational ministry, was promptly fired from his first pulpit for preaching a sermon on "Silly fools, stupid fools and damned fools" which his hearers considered much too personal. Converted to Catholicism four years later, he now writes with the full fervor of the oath he took on abandoning Protestantism to "detest and abjure every error, heresy and sect opposed to the said Holy Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church...
Prime aim of Nazi education, Ziemer found, is to fire Germans with zeal to give up their lives for Adolf Hitler. A German boy takes his first solemn oath to die for the Führer at six, repeats...
Last week, also, Marshal Pétain showed himself an increasing master of dictatorial double talk. Addressing his Council of State, from whom he demanded an oath of allegiance, he pronounced such ripe ambiguities as: "Since the day when, by the irresistible force of circumstances more than by will, and above all, my own, I was placed at the head of the State, I have multiplied appeals to common sense, to reason and to the notion of public interest...
...Treasury's order may serve one long-term purpose. This was the only aspect of the census that really frightened the big international camera-duckers: the U.S. might use it as a club in post-war negotiations. With assets physically under its jurisdiction, and so recorded under oath, the U.S. could dicker as to their release to their country of origin after the war; could if need be insist that they be invested in U.S. industry (rather than withdrawn in a deflationary period); could exact a tithe, a fifth, a half, as the price of safekeeping in a world...