Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called a betrayal of our State Department which might lead the Communists to think we are bluffing and thereby involve us in a total war. Nixon would like to shut up public opinion simply because it exposes a ghastly mistake. Not to publish these crucial facts about the truth of public opinion in a crisis would be a mockery of democracy. Perhaps the majority of Americans will reject Nixon's brand of democracy in the next election...
...solely on the merits of the case, that Miss Torre's refusal was harmful to Miss Garland in her pursuit of justice. Agreeing that freedom of the press was basic in a democracy, Judge Stewart added, "But basic, too, are courts of justice, armed with the power to discover truth." Few would deny his logic, and he was quick to qualify it: "It is to be noted that we are not dealing here with the use of judicial process to force a wholesale disclosure of a newspaper's confidential sources of news... The question asked of the appellant (Miss Torre...
...which may be well and good and true in the particular case involved. Its truth, though, is not self-evident in a general application. With-out any statutory protection of confidential sources, any newspaperman may, under the logic of the opinion, be forced to reveal evidence which is not "of doubtful relevance or materiality" to a case. To a newspaper, at least, such logic is arguable...
Along with Sir Douglas Haig, British commander in chief during World War I, mud is the villain of this excellent book. It deals mostly with the British campaign around Ypres ("Wipers" to the troops) in 1917, when British soldiers learned on Belgian soil the dread military truth uttered by Napoleon: "God-besides water, air, earth and fire-has created a fifth element...
...merits of the Kennedy-Ives bill may be debated, but the Republican Party should display a greater concern for the truth than to blame the Democrats for its defeat...