Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Europe the tide of hatred against America rises. Before he died Woodrow Wilson himself said: 'I would like to see Germany clean up France' - adding, 'I would like to meet Jusserand and tell him that to his face.' . . . Only a man with superb indifference to truth and the realities can assert that the Americans who fell in France did not die in vain. ... In eleven European countries despots wipe their feet upon the prostrate bodies of Liberty and Democracy, though none but Mussolini dares to avow it and to boast of profaning the twin goddesses...
...hands of time were turned back, not advanced by the War. . . . The streams of conscience and liberty can be dammed, not dried. They may shrink to rivulets. They will again be rivers . . . only if they will see the truth that there is no enemy to mankind like the sword. . . . By it will perish all liberty, all progress, humanity itself, if it be not forever sheathed...
...when mammon-worshiping, penny-pinching hypocrites are defending the system that exploits millions and sucks the lifeblood out of the workers around the world, in a day when snobs and aristocrats hold up the iron wall of class and caste, I have dared to stand up and tell the truth concerning these soul-blasting tyrannies...
...time to strike the shackles from the shrinking attitude of the medical profession, not only toward the public espousal of educational programs, but from its attitude toward the lay press, the radio and the great assemblies of truth seeking people. The physician has no right to conceal from non-medical readers the great body of news of the higher importance which is his to communicate...
...certain extent, probably to a greater extent than after any other war, this is being done. The success of plays, novels and films dealing with war from other than the motive of patriotic propaganda, bears witness to this truth. But it is the press of the world upon whom the responsibility fairly rests. That newspapers are the great public educators of today and that war is the greatest weapons of a fighting nation is its press; the greatest bulwark of a peaceful country should be its press. The justification of the newspaper as a social force...