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Around the State Department, the old animus against Chiang Kai-shek still persists, for Chiang is the symbol of a mistake, hanging like the ancient mariner's albatross around the U.S. neck. The U.S. had shrunk from any embroilment in Asia. The Korean intervention was not actually Asiatic policy but a 180° turn from it; it was carried out to make a moral point. As a matter of basic policy, the U.S. had determined, as it did in World War II, that the place it would much prefer to fight, if it has to fight, is in Europe...
...animus of the ugly strike, Superintendent Lutz was convinced, came not from the children, but from some of their parents...
Americans must not allow animus over British colonial failures to suggest an attitude of plague-on-your-house in the case of the present crisis. The peace of Europe is too much intertwined with the productive capacity of the British Isles for Americans to be unconcerned when this industrial potential fritters away in the face of a winter storm. If the British cannot maintain their internal living-standard, British commitments everywhere must be sealed down proportionately, and the resulting vacuum must be filled according to the power line-up of 1947, with American troops and equipment. The withdrawal of British...
...this week's issue of his intellectual quarterly Christianity & Society, neo-orthodoxy's Reinhold Niebuhr uncorked a reply that minced no words. "The animus of the [Unitarian] attack," he charged, "is primarily directed against the classical tradition of Christianity in any of its forms." Then he went on to a flat refutation of the Unitarian authors' two main theses-which, he said, revealed "the stupidity and the malice of the pamphlet...
Jove is Sore. There was apparently some personal animus in Petrillo's war against Interlochen. Dr. Maddy had persuaded the U.S. Senate to pass a bill prohibiting interference with the broadcasting of noncommercial, educational or cultural programs...