Word: righteousness
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...Marine captain, flying his lonely Wildcat in the forbidding and ugly Solomons when he was shot down by Japs. He's been "missing in action" since a year ago last Jan. 2. Let those four self-righteous souls sit at home night after night with a son missing as ours has been missing, knowing not what might have been his gruesome fate, before they condemn us who would outlaw every Jap, no matter what his nativity...
...Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels invited German mobs to lynch downed Allied airmen. "It is too much to ask of us that we call out German soldiers to protect murderers of children from the righteous anger of their parents...
...sons of the New Jersey farmers who drove out the fine Japanese "Thin Men" (TiME, April 24) will feel very proud of their righteous, fairminded, liberty-loving, patriotic parents when they hear of the latest blow struck in the interest of America and a better world. They will feel very proud that, while they are fighting the Germans to free the people of Europe, and the Japs to free the peoples of China and the Pacific, the home folks are doing their bit to make the U.S. untenable for any but true "full-blooded Americans": tall men with white skin...
...York City's famed Park Commissioner Robert Moses does not like criticism. Like his boss, Fiorello LaGuardia, he has been long in office, is conscious that he has served the public well, is self-righteous, cantankerous, and never admits that he is mistaken. Like other cantankerously honest men, he enjoys being rude...
...cannot personally participate at the council table of the nations in the formation of a new order. We can pledge ourselves to demand and support such plans and only such plans as will bring at last a just and righteous order." This statement was written by the Congregational Moderator to the 4,000 ministers of the Congregational Christian Churches this week...