Word: greeding
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Last week British democracy allowed Jock McGovern and the other two Independent Laborites, Campbell Stephen and James Maxton, their day in Parliament. They blamed the war on capitalist greed. They attacked Prime Minister Churchill as a "commercial imperialist." Jock McGovern called the Churchill-Roosevelt Atlantic Charter "one of the grossest pieces of deceit in modern times" since "it is to be applied to the nations that have been overrun by Hitler while the independent government which it proposes to give them is denied to territories overrun in the past by Britain." He said that anything except guaranteed "independence...
...there must be a Man of the Year once again, put me down for Adolf Hitler. What a noble service he is rendering the world by striking at the dual-headed monster of English greed and Russian Communism...
...exclusively, for the collapse of the French nation." This, he maintains, has resulted from the country's loss of its best man-power in successive and exhausting wars. In France "loyalties of a national character shrank to a vanishing point and were replaced by class antagonisms," selfishness, and greed became outstanding manifestations of French national behavior...
...Christianize the nation by training boys and girls as "an eager young army, ready and equipped to fight the devil of greed and all his works. . . . But if children are merely to be taught to mumble that their duty is [in the words of the Anglican catechism] 'to submit myself to all my governors, teachers, spiritual pastors and masters; to order myself lowly and reverently to all my betters . . . and to do my duty in that state of life into which it shall please God to call me,' then the sooner the Church schools are shut and religious...
...come off so well. The characters are so clearly black or white that they are too vivid for real life. But this does not keep a Southern lady's melodrama, aided and abetted by Gregg Toland's talented camera craft, from being a memorable portrait of greed. Regina and her wretched relatives possess the fascination of rattlesnakes courting in a bathtub...