Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Patton is a great commander and an honest man. Every time that he has gotten into trouble with me public it has been because he stood up on his hind legs and told the truth. The truth always hurts...
...delay was not caused by failure to use all available merchant marine ships, speculated on whether enough idle bottoms had been pressed into service as troop carriers, wondered if the Army had not failed to "act aggressively." The soldier editors ap pealed to Washington newspapermen to search out "the truth...
...truth was that the Army, still ahead of its redeployment schedule, was working with might & main to get troops home. The Army was being torn apart in answer to public demand, and would have to be rebuilt from the ground up after redeployment had been completed. Last week the War Department announced that by February all troops eligible for redeployment will be home from Atlantic theaters; by next June, from the Pacific. To speed the job, ten aircraft carriers, 26 cruisers, and six battleships will soon be run into service as troop carriers...
France had come to this crossroads through the ordeal of defeat and occupation, and through the explosive tensions of liberation. She had tasted the bitter truth in the words of Lord Grey of Fallodon: "Bad as despotism is, doomed as it is to work its own ruin, the first fruits of its overthrow are not love and liberty." Now, in democratic fashion, France registered her choice for the future...
What U.S. missionaries know about the Far East, Chaplain Stroup complains, is not being made use of by the U.S.: "The truth is that [the] silk-hatted 'realists' have made a mess of things. . . . Our State Department 'experts' on Far Eastern Affairs have no better grasp of the problems of the Orient than have many of our outstanding missionaries. ... It was the missionary . . . who for years urged aid to the desperately struggling Chinese. . . ." What's more, "the loss of many American lives and long months of battle might have been avoided if the 'wisdom...