Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible to indicate many contrasts and shades of difference among different nations, but to strike the balance of the whole is not given to human insight. The ultimate truth with respect to the character, the conscience, and the guilt of a people remains forever a secret; if only for the reason that its defects have another side, where they reappear as peculiarities or even as virtues. We must leave those who find a pleasure in passing sweeping censures on whole nations to do so as they like. The peoples of Europe can maltreat, but happily not judge, one another...
Instead of Adolf Hitler it was Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov who alternately cajoled and threatened, and instead of the Völkischer Beobachter it was the Communist Party official newsorgan Pravda ("Truth") that was out to whip up public indignation against the tiny "aggressor...
When all this had simmered down to a broth of truth, something like this remained: The Japanese were greatly impressed by Ambassador Grew's speech. The Government wanted to do something about it at once. But the Army (which usually prevails) wanted first to install Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei in China-accomplish the New Order, and then discuss it. Every Ambassador pays a routine call on a new Foreign Minister; hence last week's conversation. The talk was entirely friendly, and there was no threat. But Ambassador Grew again made clear the nature of U. S. complaints...
There is an element of truth in your criticisms of the Peace Poll. Our tacit assumptions may have gone too far in certain cases. The notion that war profiteers do play a part in drawing the country into war, and the idea that a war crisis may be used as a pretext for legislation destructive of civil liberties and labor and social security standards, while they seem obvious to us, are apparently doubtful for many students. Similarly, we may have been over-eager to link up points which we consider connected but which in the popular mind are dissociated. Objection...
Declaring that "many turn their gaze with renewed hope to the Church, the rock of truth and of charity," Pius XII nevertheless took note that, to many, the precepts of the Church are "an object of suspicion, as if they shook the foundations of civil authority or usurped its rights." This the Pope denied. But he forthrightly marked off the Church's stand when he said: "So many noble minds separated from us ... are recognizing in the Catholic Church principles of belief and life that have stood the test of two thousand years . . . [the Church] is generous...