Word: phobe
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...Army's Chief of Staff (1930-35), he had been an administrator, dealing daily with civilian government officials. As the Philippine Commonwealth's Field Marshal, he had closely studied his prospective enemy, and had become the target of America-hating Japs who called him "that leading Japano-phobe." Perhaps most important, he had come to understand alien peoples (in the case of the Filipinos, to love them...
...correspondents were admitted to the vast Hall of Ambassadors in the Chancellery, they observed that Don Ramón Serrano Suñer was not there. Neither was any member of the diplomatic corps except slim, suave Saburo Kurusu, who represents Japan in Berlin and has a Nazi-phobe American wife. Just outside a door that leads to the offices of Adolf Hitler a long table had been placed. Ambassador Kurusu sat there, as did Count Ciano and Herr von Ribbentrop. Before them, on the table, lay a thin document in triplicate...
...than the Western students, who also know that it is quite justified as evinced by your editorial. You censure the Westerners for accusing you of snobbishness and at the same time substantiate most adequately their charge. Can such a phrase as: ". . . . of the ignorance, bad taste, jealousy, and Anglo-phobe tendencies, which are common to a considerable cross-section of the West"--can such a phrase be interpreted as anything but a foolish utterance of an insufferable snob...
...Labor Government in a technical minority by passing 42 to 21 (with 674 absences and abstentions) a resolution which deplored Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's recognition of Soviet Russia (TIME, Nov. 18). The vote came after a sneering, sarcastic harang by the Earl of Birkenhead, bitter Moscow-phobe. "I am almost convinced by the Government's orators," said the bitter Earl, "that Soviet propaganda is either wholly innocuous or positively beneficial to Great Britain. Perhaps we ought to subsidize...
Among other things, Mr. Ford is a Hebrew-phobe. He employs no Jews in his mighty industries; he resents the grip that they have on certain U. S. businesses. And so it was natural that one of the early functions of the Dearborn Independent was to annoy the Semitic. In 1924 and 1925, 20 articles written by Newspaperman Harry Dunn, under the pseudonym Robert Morgan, appeared on the subject: "Jewish Exploitation of Farmers' Organizations." The first article said flatly: "A band of Jew bankers, lawyers, advertising agencies, fruit packers, produce buyers, professional office managers and bookkeeping experts...