Word: unjustness
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...refused in favor of Paris and London. Then Toscanini, mad at the way Italy was faring at the hands of the Big Four, huffily canceled his dates in Paris and London in protest ("I personally am not in a state of mind to conduct [because of my] sadness for unjust political decisions."). Suddenly the city of Lucerne got word that the Maestro was willing to play two concerts there-the first one five days from date. Toscanini had a sentimental memory of Lucerne: it was the city where he had conducted the night before war was declared...
...famed conductor's early anti-Naziism had weakened. As he had last December, Jewish Violinist Yehudi Menuhin bravely stuck his neck out for his fellow artist, cabled the General: "I beg to take violent issue. . . . The man was never a Party member ... I believe it is patently unjust...
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...