Word: whitewashing
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There would be some justification for the use of American tanks and machine guns in the forty U. S. equipped divisions, if, by giving this materiel, America were helping a democratic government subdue a rebellious minority harmful to an enlightened program. But in spite of the tactful whitewash masking the Kuomintang government, the reports trickling out of China point to Chiang, not as a liberal ruler, but as a feudal baron eager for an absolute dictatorship. Returning G.I.'s, foreign correspondents, and Madame Sun Yat Sen question the pledges of Chiang, with tales of concentration camps, gruesome political murders...
...Ukrainian report charged that on June 14 a Greek civilian and six soldiers had sneaked across the Albanian border to whitewash the pyramidal frontier marker No. 23. Said the report: "Our patrol of Trustoniku ordered him not to whitewash it, but as the civilian did not obey, our soldiers fired at him. After an exchange of shots lasting for 30 minutes, the Greek soldiers withdrew to their post of Llapanica, wherefrom they started machine-gunning our soldiers. Our patrol did the same. There were no casualties...
...intransigent isolationism was no handicap in the German and Scandinavian areas of Minnesota, where isolationism is still a potent political force. Instead of trying to whitewash his record on foreign affairs, he made no bones of the fact that he and North Dakota's Bill Langer had cast the only votes in the Senate against U.N. Rural voters nodded approval...
Never rising above its environment, the Fred Rath and Lee Sands farce is about a couple of Coney Island tin-horns, Benny Baker and Sid Melton, who whitewash an elephant and pass him off, in the disapproved carnival style, as a sacred and genu-wine Indian white pachyderm. Things get more elaborate, but the plot is never much thicker than the coat of whitewash...
...inclination to read the story of the first U.S. defeat, three years and nine months ago. The very bulk of the documents (130,000 words) was forbidding. The New York Times printed it all and sat down. Congressmen, before they had read it through, shouted that it was a "whitewash" or that it was incomplete. Harry Truman said that it proved everyone was to blame...