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...loves cockfighting and beauty contests, dancing, American clothes, American movies. If Americans think he is evasive, it is because his natural courtesy is so great that he does not want to offend. If his greatest fault is his imitativeness, it is the U.S. of the past two decades that he has imitated. He has grown up like the heir to a rich estate-as rich and as little exploited as any in the Orient-whose guardian has been unable either to plan for him or to set him an example that he could follow...
...telling the truth TIME may sometimes offend-and for this TIME is deeply sorry. Only recently a brief article in TIME became an international issue when death gave it an unintended significance. TIME especially regrets any offense to the sensibilities of its friends in Latin America-resulting from this article. But honest, factual reporting on events in every part of the world is essential if the people of the Americas are to help guide the destinies of their nations...
...progressive Timken Roller Bearing Co., a railroad supplier for 37 years, last week went out of its way to offend one of its best customers. In full-page newspaper ads, run in 23 U.S. cities, it stingingly rebuked the railroads for technical backwardness, urged them to avoid "serious freight congestion" by converting all their freight cars from friction bearings to roller bearings at once...
...part. That would be rude. Besides, it would not be true. But the point I am trying to make is that your writers go out of their way to describe their subjects as "potbellied," "bullnecked," "paunchy," and the like. By so doing they invite ill will, engender resentment, and offend the nice sensibilities, for instance, of foreign diplomats who are schooled in politeness and courtesy. ... It was considered smart by some, after World War I, to be rude. Just when manners seemed to be improving, along comes your magazine, grabs Grandma Literary Digest by the seat of her inner chaps...
...years ago, a $52,000,000 naval authorization bill introduced in the House contained an item of $5,000,000 for harbor improvements at Guam. For three days Congressmen raged against this item. Their theme: the appropriation might offend Japan, cause war. The debate began on the eve of Washington's Birthday; speaker after speaker summoned the shade of the Father of his Country, keened over the insult to Japan (though amused Japanese politely protested that the U. S. had a perfect right to improve its own property), and the item was stricken from the bill...