Word: reprimands
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From General Lucius D. Clay, American occupation zone commander, came the mild reprimand: "It is bad citizenship to encourage people to disobey the law of the land." Niemöller's directive seemed to be having little practical effect. Germans were still testifying against Germans. The remaining denazification trials were expected to end next June. But many Germans were delighted with Pastor Niemöller's words, and in the arena of world opinion they still carried, for some listeners, immense authority. Was this authority justified...
Charged with "aggravated contempt and gross breach of privilege," Allighan would be lucky to get off with a reprimand from the Speaker. Parliament could, if it wished, suspend him, expel him, or even confine him in the Tower of the House. Herbert Morrison announced to the House that Allighan has gone to South Africa "on medical advice...
...cigarette in one hand and a highball in the other. When I heard Walter Gieseking in Wiesbaden he was in the act of prostituting himself before such an audience. After ham-fisting his way through Debussey, he concluded (either as a culmination of his own bad taste or a reprimand to that of his listeners) with a beer garden style arrangement of Strauss waltz themes...
Already Zhdanov's committee has singled out for reprimand a host of writers, editors, film directors and play producers who have veered away from the party line onto primrose paths "where interests of the party were made victims of personal interests and general self-praise." The magazine Leningrad has been suspended, the Writers' Union given a thorough shakeup. A million-ruble movie, The Monogrammed Diary, was spirited away without a trace, after one viewing by the Cinema Ministry. Even the prestigious, semi-official Izvestia was scolded for printing the news straight, leaving the reader "to grope...
...ring been tried in Bad Nauheim instead of Nürnberg he probably would have been given an official reprimand, fined 500 marks and given the option of letting Justice Jackson off scot-free or prosecuting him for maliciously instigating his trial...