Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people is, in French ideology, very like casting pearls before swine. The amenities of international relations demand the attempt, but the sons of Marianne place no faith in its success. Rhetoric may be useful, but only when supported by bayonets. Adroitly M. Laval mentioned Italy and, in the next paragraph, Austria. Then followed a few quiet words in reference to Russia, along with a declaration of the peace-loving, disinterested attitude of France. Very subtly, the foreign minister concluded: "All those who are interested in the Eastern pact have been or will be again called on to make it known...
Regarding the choice of a prominent person to introduce the speakers, the following paragraph from a BBC letter to the Oxford group is quoted...
...faithful to pray for an end of the persecution, the prelates did not forget U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels whom many a Catholic has accused of publicly giving aid and comfort to the Mexican Government (TIME, Oct. 15 et seq.). Omitting specific mention of that aging Methodist, a paragraph in the hierarchy's statement was aimed straight at him: "We cannot but deplore the expressions unwittingly offered, at times, of sympathy with and support of governments and policies which are absolutely at variance with our own American principles. They give color to the boast of the supporters of tyrannical...
...paragraph about women who undergo caesarean operations seldom developing peritonitis is not scientifically correct. As a matter of fact, peritonitis following caesarean operation was the cause of death in most cases. That was before the advent of this new technique...
Professor Magoun, in the last paragraph of his first letter, clears himself of any dogmatic opinion. He states, "Except from a short-term point of view it is highly doubtful if these policies have damaged German universities. And the principles at which they (the Nazis) have struck represent not so much an attack on "academic freedom" as an attempt to check irresponsibility toward what seem (and please note the words "what seem") to the German people to be the highest aspirations of our western civilization." In other words, Professor Magoun says indirectly that for a short-term period the German...