Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany's former error was a false optimism. . . . Dr. Brüning is an ascetic, he always told the people the truth, but after a while the masses always become unreceptive to asceticism, particularly when they are called upon to make sacrifices without understanding why. They will submit to the greatest privations, I think, if only one talks the language that touches the heart...
...Truth? Thus France nailed again & again to the mast her understanding that united Franco-British pressure will be brought to bear on the U. S. to cancel War Debts. The French attitude only hardened under President Hoover's blast against such pressure and under the following observation soon made by Scot MacDonald...
...There is no truth in any statement that the Anglo-French declaration [Accord de Confiance] is applicable to the question of British debts to the U. S. The use in the declaration of the words 'European regime' expressly excludes from its purview any questions affecting the non-European countries...
...Meanwhile at the "cloob" there is much irrelevant activity. But two sympathetic visitors, Nicholas and Philomela Purssord, of whose doings Authoress Harris makes a little novel in itself, come to Deux Estaings. When Aicadre is released they help break down his inhuman, crippled bitterness. When that breaks down the truth breaks out at last?Aicadre is in fact desperately in love with life, and, after Laure has ordered her tyrannous mother out of the house, with her. Moreover he was not the murderer of their child...
...Promethée, said that they found her hatches open, conjectured that an explosion may have ripped open the Promethée's stern, thus causing her to sink stern first. "The public has a right," observed long-mustached French Naval Minister Georges Leygues, "to know the truth...