Word: apologia
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Buttenwieser did make his speech last week to the Foreign Policy Association, but he never got to speak to the Anti-Defamation League. Its 35-man national commission, studying a preview of his address, decided that it did not like its "general tenor," that it was "an apologia for the limited job that has been done to denazify Germany; and gives aid and encouragement to . . . vicious elements . . ." Mr. Buttenwieser was scratched off the convention program...
...today, he said. One is "a revulsion against . . . misery and poverty as the normal condition of life"; the other is "the revulsion against foreign domination." Then he rolled with ball-bearing ease into his own theory of China's complex postwar struggles. It included the familiar State Department apologia for its own miserable failure in China: nothing the U.S. could have done, he said once more, could have changed things one iota. "What has happened in my judgment is that the almost inexhaustible patience of the Chinese people in their misery ended. They did not bother to overthrow this...