Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ruler of an Indian State, no Indian statesman, Indian ecclesiastic or Indian businessman of standing came out last week in favor of the Simon Report (TIME, June 30). With virtual unanimity the Indian people, in so far as they are articulate, appeared to reject it. Speaking for imprisoned St. Gandhi, who was not allowed by the British to say anything, Acting Leader Pandit Motilal Nehru said quietly: "We simply shall not pay the slightest heed to the Simon Report...
Vulgar Eugenio Bassani was the first Italian sentenced under the Lateran Treaty, which makes it as much a crime to speak ill of Il Papa as of Il Duce or Il Re. In practice one may speak ill of the Pope or the King with virtual impunity throughout Italy so long as one employs suave and gentlemanly terms. But even to utter the word "Mussolini" aloud in a public place causes consternation. Members of the English-speaking colony at Rome take no chances that an Italian might misunderstand them to be speaking ill of Il Duce. Shrewd, they generally refer...
...which Sir John Simon and his associates spent two years in studying. Since the World War the British Empire has gone under a considerable process of rebuilding and emerged as something entirely new in the history of colonial development, the British Commonwealth of Nations. As such it is a virtual collection of Independent states held together by trade interests, a common heritage, and the royal family...
...more celebrated liquor-buyer case was that of Alfred E. Norris, Manhattan stockbroker, who bought of a Philadelphia 'legger (TIME, Oct. 14). But the Supreme Court held that his plea of nolo contendere ("I do not choose to argue") was a virtual admission of guilt, and declined to review his case...
...Maltese situation: the island is divided between several Catholic factions, one led by Archbishop Maurus Caruana who is pro-Italian, another by the Chief Minister (virtual ruler of Malta, offspring of a Maltese mother and a British father), stalwart Baron Strickland of Sizergh, who of course fights tooth and nail all propaganda to restore Malta to Italy...