Word: sacrosanctity
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...five months before January 30 'when Germany slept.' In the four months before May when Hitler 'was missing the bus.' As for Britain we had 900,000 unemployed and at Christmas some of the aircraft works shut for the week. Sundays and half Saturdays were sacrosanct. Last winter it was Britain who slept. Therefore we ask soberly now what is this year's winterset? . . . The Boche are working late this winter. In the shrouded factories in far Bohemia, the new centre of German arms production, there are being forged weapons of another spring...
Magna Charta was a document wistfully referred to in Britain last week. One by one cherished civil liberties were falling by the wayside. Last week Minister of Home Security Sir John Anderson introduced into the House of Commons a bill which proposed putting an end to the most sacrosanct right of all -trial by jury. The bill provided for special, emergency war-zone courts which could pass any sentence, including death. Sir John Anderson's Emergency Powers Act was already excuse for the Silent-Column arrests and trials. Wrote the News Chronicle: "Begging your pardon, Sir John, we would...
...Navy. The late Brig. Gen. William ("Billy") Mitchell earned fame and martyrdom by doing the same. But Al Williams, on the Marine Corps's inactive list, considered that he was writing as a civilian. In a column last February he ripped & tore at the Navy's sacrosanct Selection Board (for arranging to kick out eight of the Navy's best flying officers, who had not gone to Annapolis). Last April he received a memorandum from Marine Corps Headquarters in Washington: "Further destructive criticism . . . will be considered sufficient cause . . . that your commission . . . be revoked...
...mother was a German woman from the Saar, and Weygand was born in Belgium, did not become a citizen of France until he joined the Army at the age of 21. Worse than that, the top general of all the generals of France was not a product of the sacrosanct French War College. He was the product of the late, great Marshal Foch, who made him, bowlegged little cavalry colonel that he was, his chief staff officer purely on a seniority basis, when called upon to form and take command of the famed IX Army for the First Battle...
...done so, we believe, not as a peace move but as a political move. . . . The American majority does not want to see relations established between this Government and any religious body, and it will hold Mr. Roosevelt responsible for having tried to do this under the nearly sacrosanct cover of a campaign for peace. . . . In every respect . . . the dispatch of Mr. Taylor to the Vatican is of ill omen to the neutrality and religious freedom...