Word: untruth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dissipate these cross-reflections, they harkened to the words of Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain: "I am tired of the palpable untruth that this Government is in Irak for the oil that British capitalists can get out of the Mosul region. If we were after oil we could have had the concession for all the oil in Mosul and concessions for anything else we liked. . . . I was approached by a Turkish representative last March with the proposition that Great Britain should have the exploitation of all the oil in the Vilayet of Mosul, provided that Turkey should be granted...
...have the mighty fallen and the inerrant promulgated untruth! So will it ever be with those who accept uncritically the offerings of the newspaper press...
...believe we have a more accurate and a more deeply significant knowledge of our Maker today than had the Hebrew Patriarchs who thought a man could hide from God in a garden, or who believed that God could tell man an untruth. (Genesis 2:17 states that God told man he would surely die if he ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge; man ate, he did not die, God knew he would not die therefore...
Trotzky is a general without an arm. Communists have denounced him as a perverter of Bolshevik ideals and a spreader of untruth concerning. "Saint" Lenin. His party suspects him of having designs to usurp the dead leader's place, and change the name of Leningrad to "Trotzkgrad". He is feared especially because the five consonants coming together in the name "Trotzkgrad" make a strong appeal to every true Russian heart...
...complete consent will prove in the end to have less power than truth and facts, for these alone are valid, authentic and infallible." No one threw bricks at him. Miracles, divorce, industry, eugenics, creeds, were all quite thoroughly discussed. All present were Protestants, protesting as they chose against whatever untruth or unrighteousness "is, and of a right ought to be, pro-tested...