Word: resift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are professional historians who are at work to resift evidence of war responsibility as new documents come to light, but the most conscientious of them will admit that their conclusions are at best tentative, that no final judgment will be reached in their generation. When, therefore, a popular writer uses the professional historians like Fay for his authority and weaves a pattern from present day memoirs of war guilt to clothe the Allied Nations, it can hardly be a matter of concern to his reviewer. The material, say, from Page's letters, the House memoirs, and Grey's memoirs...
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