Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West's moral community broke under the impact of great historic forces. It began to neglect a simple truth-that liberty, as Edmund Burke put it, cannot exist "without order and virtue...
...through the separatist Bayernpartei. Its leader, squat, jowly Josef Baumgartner, sums up his creed: "Every German state should be given veto power like that in the U.N." One C.S.U. leader has remarked: "A separatist's happiest dream is somebody to be named Bavarian ambassador in Bern, but the truth is none of them has brains enough to be a vice consul in Venezuela...
...with the nomination committee to include the poundmaster and chief plumbing inspector of the District of Columbia, and the prize plaque to be "a rectangular shield transversed by a double cross, surmounted by a turkey buzzard . . . with jackal couchant in the left upper quarter and the symbolic figures of Truth and Decency outraged supine in the lower right quarter...
When it lost money in the next six years, its passengers darkly suspected the Pennsy of milking its stepchild by overcharging for the use of its Manhattan terminal and East River tunnels. In 1940, the Interstate Commerce Commission found some truth in this. It made the Pennsy kick back $5.6 million of these charges to the Long Island, and make a new contract that trimmed a million a year off the rents...
...very late and very slowly and largely in a spirit of revolt against this business that I began to write something different. In Apley I drew on a life in which I had a stake. You have to write about what you have lived to get at some worthwhile truth...