Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, pale as death, Quisling himself launched into a two-day plea for his life. He did not deny any of the state's major charges, but he claimed to have saved Norway from becoming a battlefield. He even boasted of his sentimental friendship with Hitler. With evangelical fervor he called himself a prophet and a patriot. His last feeble shout: "If my activity has been treason, then in God's name I hope that for the sake of Norway many of her sons will become the same kind of traitor...
...rescue went Loyal Oppositionist Winston Churchill. He seconded the plea for no debate-"the utmost restraint must be exercised ... in all comments on the American situation at this time." Then Winston Churchill proceeded to comment: "I cannot believe that this is the last word of the United States. I cannot believe that so great a country . . . would proceed in such a rough and harsh manner...
France Divided. In Paris debate raged. Screamed the Communist Humanite: Petain must die-"Pity would be a token of weakness." But others shook their heads over a trial for high treason which had become a trial of high politics. Said Author Georges Bernanos (Plea for Liberty) in Combat: "France is disgusted. . . ." Warned Lille's influential Voix du Nord: "The country remains divided, as it was after the Dreyfus case...
...This is not meant to be an attack on Russia. It is more of an open letter to the U.S.S.R. It is a plea for a frank explanation of what is going on here. Queer, sinister things have been happening here lately and the Persians are badly scared...
Thomas Mann got a "come home" plea from the Berlin Radio, which recalled his early warnings against Naziism and concluded: "Today a new spirit sweeps through Germany. We need this new spirit. We need Thomas Mann. . . ." In Los Angeles the famed 70-year-old author, a U.S. citizen since 1940, gently turned down the invitation. "My home is here," he said. "After all, I am an old man and my greatest force for good is in my writing...