Word: retractment
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...Sprinter Jesse Owens was cornered at the home of a Manhattan police lieutenant, muttered: "I made the statement [endorsing Landon] all right, but what I do in the voting booth may be another matter. Almost everyone I have talked to has told me I was foolish and ought to retract. ... I am too young to know anything about politics...
Last July Father Coughlin in the course of a political speech in Cleveland called President Roosevelt a "betrayer and liar." Bishop Gallagher ordered his priest to retract, later sailed for Vatican City to make Episcopal reports to executives of the Holy See and obeisance to.the Pope. In Vatican City, Bishop Gallagher heard off-stage voices variously blaming and praising Father Coughlin's political activities. Since no prelate had chosen to speak out clearly on his own authority, the Detroit bishop decided that, on the whole, the Vatican approved Father Coughlin, and so declared to the Press (TIME...
...knew there was no stomach among the Great Powers to go to war to "enforce in Ethiopia a peace of which the League could rightly approve," so they simply would not try. Captain Eden said that there was nothing to apologize for and nothing to retract...
...view of the fact that these statements are wholly untrue and reflect most injuriously on his character and integrity, I write to ask that you retract such statements in the next issue of your magazine in space equally as prominent as that devoted to the original inaccurate statements...
Significance & Suppression. Thus Adolf Hitler in the same breath declared that he does not retract one word of his domestic incitements to Germans to crush and conquer France and yet spoke as though he had made specific offers to France looking toward eternal amity. If any such offers have been made, the French Foreign Office and the Berlin Embassy of France have never disclosed what they are and neither has Adolf Hitler. The half-amazed, half-angry reaction of the Paris Cabinet last week was to inform the world press that Ambassador André François-Poncet will...