Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue of pacifism was sidestepped in the interest of unity, and Christian participation in the war is not included among the 13 points with which the message closes. Most significant of these 13 points are: > "To withstand any propaganda of hatred or revenge and to refuse it the sanction of religion." > "To manifest Christian good will toward those among us whose origin was in nations with which our country is now at war." > "To strive for national policies in conformity with the will of God, rather than to seek the divine sanction for a human purpose." > "To maintain unbroken...
...clamping down a tight censorship of news and photographs the eight westernmost states and Alaska last fortnight were officially made a "Theater of Operations." All news and photographs of troops, their identity, location, number, individual names was forbidden except with official sanction. The Navy next issued a strong warning "To the Public" with subheads reading: THIS IS A MODERN WAR-THIS IS A TOTAL WAR-THIS IS A HARSH WAR. It warned citizens not to discuss ships, sailors, weapons, casualties, ship damage or defense production. Still more drastically, Army and Navy on the West Coast began censoring domestic telegrams...
Nazi persecution of religious opposition has long been an outstanding disgrace of Germany (TIME. Dec. 23), but actually the plan which the President revealed was no great secret and it has yet to receive official Nazi sanction. Religious News Service distributed two long stories on a very similar plan in 1938, and the Christian Science Monitor ran the plan in detail five days before Mr. Roosevelt's Navy Day speech, with an introductory paragraph reading...
...Hindenburg. "He called the Cabinet his General Staff, and the Chancellor his Chief of Staff," but "cooperated with Parliament in the manner of an old gentleman who likes order in his household." By virtue of Paragraph 48 of the Weimar Constitution, his chancellor could issue decrees "on the sole sanction of the President's signature." If the Reichstag objected, the President could send it home...
...according to its lyricist) was last week plugged in Los Angeles by Major Alberto E. Merrill, U.S. Army, and four recruiting sergeants. The Army has been plagued by many a song-plugger and press agent, but A Grand Vacation With Pay is the first recruiting song to command official sanction. Its authors are L. Wolfe Gilbert and Jimmy McHugh (Waiting For the Robert E. Lee, I Can't Give You Anything But Love and Ramona...