Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Evening Standard cried: the statement, it is vital that he deny it instantly. . . . Its effect is to discredit British propaganda past, present and future...
...several days, General Charteris at length spoke. To reporters who crowded round him as he was about to set sail for Glasgow, aboard the liner Transylvania, he delivered himself warmly as follows: "Mv speech was made at a private dinner at which the toastmaster began his remarks with the statement that no reporters were present. ... It was not necessary for us to spread false propaganda, as sufficient false propaganda was being spread from other sources to offset any which was spread for a good purpose . . . My whole idea in speaking was to show that propaganda not based on truth...
Bernard Shaw penned the above statement - plunged straightway into a letter to the London Times wherein he scored the General Medical Council of England* as "a trade union of the worst type-namely, a type in which entry into the trade and the right to remain in it are at the mercy of the union...
...Boston Herald (allegedly published to anticipate an article in the November Atlantic Monthly) gave as the decision of a minority of the scientists the theory that, in all good faith, Margery had exhibited powers of hypnosis and automatism only; nothing inexplicable or supernormal. Even to this conservative statement, a majority of the scientists, swiftly dissented, declaring there had been "trickery," conscious or unconscious, and retracting their previous agreement with the hypnosis theory...
Those who consider that the main argument against the League of Nations is a reiteration of the often ill advised statement, that it is, after all, powerless to do any real good, will do well to remark the present success of the League in silencing the war threats and rifles of the Greeks and Bulgars. In the days before the League was thought of, the Balkan states were always the sore spot of Europe. Not only delighting in the tinsel of melodrama, they liked a bit of the shooting and sword play which goes with the tinsel. So every...