Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know what constitutes "classified" information. The press sections of the services, instead of being headed by generals and admirals who have authority to decide what is and is not classified information for publication, are manned by officers of lower rank who cannot give out any information which might offend some cranky general or admiral. Result: the press sections of the services withhold much information that is already matter of public record (printed, for example, in the Congressional Record to which anyone can subscribe...
...humanity he wrung forth a tremendous and dynamic response. ... In order to save humanity from the horror of ... Naziism, we must find a way of living superior, not merely to Naziism, but to that which we ourselves knew before. ... We are unprepared for this. . . . You must be prepared to offend people who are determined to preserve the existing order. ... I beg of you now to proclaim the new society openly. ... So only wall you save yourselves...
...days while Belgrade hemmed & hawed. The Germans asked for a naval escort through Yugoslavia's neutral waters, hoping to establish a system whereby Nazi freighters could ply all around the neutral Balkan peninsula from Russia's Black Sea oil ports. But Yugoslavs had no wish to offend the Allies...
...waging economic war with more ruthless disregard for neutral rights and international law, the Allies may offend neutrals obliquely without bringing them into the war. Last week's detention of two Russian freighters in the Far East was strong Allied provocation of Red Russia, but was scarcely calculated to lead to hostilities. Even if it should, the new Allied attitude seemed to be that they did not care...
Injection of Socialists, sure to offend the Right, was balanced by including more Rightists as undersecretaries. The new Premier kept for himself the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, handed over his beloved Finance Ministry to Radical Socialist Lucien Lamoureux, a yes-man. Georges Bonnet, Minister of Justice in the outgoing Cabinet (Minister of Foreign Affairs in the days of "Munich"), was left out of the new Cabinet altogether. The Air Ministry, previously held by Radical Socialist Guy La Chambre, went to Left Democrat Laurent Eynac who has held this job before-no ball of fire...