Word: dishonest
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...told that any further aid to England without involving ourselves in a bloody invasion of Germany would be dishonest to England! The government of this nation has made its position in regard to aid to England reasonably clear. It has denied the intention of sending an expeditionary force. We are not misleading England. Indeed, a number of British spokesmen are opposed to an American overseas force. They fear that it would reduce our productive capacity, and they call for aid in material rather than in men. To term our present method of aid to Britain dishonest is patently false...
...time to call a halt to our headlong rush into war. To help England further, without pledging ourselves to dedicate a generation to the bloody task of invading Germany, would be dishonest. We must stop sending bombers and ships and guns to England unless we are prepared to follow them up with men. Now that there is something like a deadlock, President Roosevelt, if he means to make good his pledge to keep America out of war, should throw his weight in favor of the best possible peace with Germany--yes, even a peace leaving Hitler in control...
...makes him glorify the most ill-natured, suspicious, truculent crowd among the Internationals - the Communist diehards. Politi cal opacity makes him bat around franti cally trying to rationalize the Russian Purge when it begins to disrupt the Inter national Brigades, leads him to an ac quiescence that would be dishonest if it were not merely smug...
YOUR SHADING OF NEWS IN BEHALF OF OUR INTERVENTION IS DISHONEST. THE REFERENCE TO MY OPPOSITION TO RED CROSS RESOLUTION [TIME, July 1] TOLD A HALF TRUTH BECAUSE YOU FAIL TO SAY THAT IT WAS NOT PASSED UNTIL IT WAS AMENDED AS DESIRED. BE TRUTHFUL, THE POLICY OF YOUR MAGAZINE IS FOR OUR ENTRANCE...
Last summer Father Rowan reviewed the whole course of the Spanish war, decided that U. S. Catholic commentators had been biased, sometimes dishonest, in their treatment of it. For this "Big Broadcast" Father Rowan got roundly swatted. Even the editorial page of the New World, written by Father Edward V. Dailey, disagreed. Presently Father Rowan abandoned an old dream: to make the New World the first big-city Catholic daily. Said he (under a pen name): ". . . Whereas the inarticulate majority of our readers possibly has no objections to ... a fair presentation of the news, the articulate and even vociferous minority...