Word: contempts
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Japs and Germans. The Japanese people have only jealous hatred for their German allies, contempt for the Italians, great admiration for the Red Army. The Tripartite Pact binding Germany, Italy and Japan is soft-pedaled in the press. German defeats are glossed over, but only because the Government does not want to emphasize Allied strength...
...chief interest, with the movie as with the book and play, lies in Steinbeck's central thesis: that Nazis are vulnerable to hatred and contempt. The more the picture attempts to make this theme explicit, the more it underlines the fact that Steinbeck's premise is questionable psychology. Conquerors do not expect to be loved, and seldom go to pieces because the conquered fail to embrace them. The Moon is Down may seem to many audiences an extraordinarily naive view of the facts of Nazi life...
After his release Captain Wilson asked the King's Bench to charge Sir John with contempt of Court, claimed ?5,000 damages for loss of Constitutional rights...
...case was heard last week by a King's Bench Justice, Sir Travers Humphreys, 75, famed criminal lawyer and onetime Cambridge rowing man. When the Government's Attorney General maintained that the Home Office action did not constitute contempt, Mr. Justice Humphreys snapped: "An official of the Home Office is not the servant of Sir John Anderson. Both are servants of the Crown. . . . Are you saying that it is for some subordinate in one of the Ministries to decide what this Court will look...
...position or how great his name-be found to have interfered with the rights of one of His Majesty's subjects, I think I should have no difficulty in putting into force . . . the great powers of this King's Bench Division of imprisoning such a person for contempt of Court...