Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...condemn the careless, incorrect, and unjust use of such words as "Red" and "Communist" to attack teachers and other persons who in point of fact are not Communists, but who merely have views different from those of their accusers. The whole spirit of free American education will be subverted unless teachers are free to think for them selves...
...Pope, in his speech to the employers, laid quite a different emphasis. "Why not," he asked, "while there is still time, put things in order ... in a way to secure the . . . [employer] against unjust suspicion and the . . . [workers] against illusions which will not be long in becoming social perils...
...apply to nations as well as individuals? Here Niebuhr wades into a cut & thrust theological controversy, armed with a two-edged blade of paradox. Human society, he concedes, is maintained by push-and-shove competition and balance of power; the very instruments of social justice tend automatically to become unjust. But, he says, such teachers as Martin Luther are in error, when they "exclude the possibility of redemption and a new life in man's social existence, and confine redemption to individual life." The structures of society cannot be perfected, but they can be improved. And this the Christian...
...March 28th Publisher's Letter on Robert Low, TIME Inc.'s Eastern European Correspondent. Discussing the growing difficulty of reporting the news behind the Balkans' Iron Curtain, the Letter said: "The Curtain is securely fastened now-except for Communist and fellow-traveling foreign journalists ..." This was unjust to the small, hard-working group of U.S., British and other non-Communist foreign correspondents still doing their jobs in the Balkans' Communist countries. Correspondent Low was one of the first to call it to my attention after it appeared in TIME...
...pointed out," he testified, "that in such an incident it would be the duty of the Communist Party to fight against such an unjust war, and that in such a case the imperialist war should be converted into a civil war." Mrs. Fletcher also quoted sections from her text calling for the defeat "of one's own government in an imperialist war," Philbrick said...