Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brigadier General Harry Vaughan has seen fit to make an unwarranted, unjust, and wholly unintelligent criticism of the Protestant chaplains of the United States Army [TIME, Sept. 10]. If General Vaughan were merely expressing his personal opinion as a private citizen his remarks could and should be ignored. But this is not the case. General Vaughan occupies an official position, and his remarks are open to the interpretation of being official Army opinion...
Said Pulitzer Prize Biographer Allan Nevins (Graver Cleveland): "Names of wars are usually inaccurate. What do you say-the Civil War? Or the War between the States, as Southerners say; or the War of the Rebellion, which is the official and rather foolish and unjust name in our records? I prefer the War for Southern Independence. I would like to think this one would become known as the Last...
...that a few great powers would wield overwhelming military might to repress violence. The nations represented at San Francisco found that conception unacceptable. A few feared that the Great Powers would in fact agree upon a use of force which unguided by moral principles would be oppressive and unjust. Many more feared that the five Great Powers would be unable to agree among themselves and that the Security Council would be impotent as an organ for action. This fear was enhanced by the obvious difficulty which the Great Powers experienced in arriving at agreement upon matters before the conference...
...there is a war a German doesn't ask is it just or unjust, but he feels bound to join the ranks. ... I think the German people will be a little more cautious in the future, but more than this I cannot promise...
Sirs: With no son or husband to lose in this war, I consider myself well qualified to present an unemotional plea for the troops that have been active in the European theater of war since June 6th. It is not only unjust but certainly inhumane to send to the Pacific area the combat troops that have fought so valiantly since our landings in Normandy. In the sense of the word "patriotism," almost a year of constant warfare should be enough for anyone...