Word: morals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peaceful, honorable settlement" until Britain let the Indians determine their own status. And then: "When this is done, questions regarding defense of minorities, princes and European interests automatically will be dissolved. ... If Britain cannot recognize India's legitimate claims, what will it be but Britain's moral bankruptcy...
...crusade," postulated Jean Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris, last week. "We are struggling to preserve the freedom of people throughout the world, whether they be great or small peoples, and to preserve their possessions and their very lives. No other war has had aims that are more spiritual, moral, and, in sum, more Christian...
...true remedy," wrote the bishops, "will be found ... in accomplishing two reforms in our social order. In the first place there must be re-established some form of guild or vocational groups which will bind men together in society according to their respective occupations, thus creating a moral unity. Secondly, there must be a reform of morals and a profound renewal of the Christian spirit which must precede the social reconstruction...
...weeks ago New Yorkers were selling spot rubber and pig tin (both of which the U. S. must import) for reexport through Amtorg, chief U. S. purchasing agent of the Soviet Government. War and Navy Department officials, having failed to build stockpiles of these essentials, cracked down with a "moral embargo." Said they, nipping one 500-ton sale of pig tin in the bud, ". . . Unless the method of voluntary cooperation can be counted upon to operate with complete effectiveness it will become necessary to use other means." U. S. heavy industry experts, their talents needed in domestic bottlenecks, have also...
...vulgarity, in art at any rate, imply a certain amount of conscious effort on the part of the artist to be either obscene or vulgar; and indications of such a motive seem to be lacking in Grosz's work. Generally speaking, I would criticize Grosz on neither technical nor moral grounds; it can be admitted, however, that he is too picayune, too eager to seize upon comparatively insignificant, if true, aspects of humanity for the purpose of acrimonious accentuation. Substituting his name for that of Zola, "Everyone defecates; only Grosz bothers about...