Word: apprehending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sincerity is more than proved by what the United States offers. His speech epitomizes what everyone would like to feel about America, but what we have been recently led to doubt. "We harbor no fears; we have no sordid ends to serve; we suspect no enemy; we contemplate or apprehend no conquest. We only wish to do with you that fine, nobler thing which no nation can do alone". The altruism of America is unquestionable...
Your editorial of June 2 on Mexico is one which I cannot let go by without some comment. Six years ago, on the 29th of June, 1914, the world, and our country with it, howled its disapproval and disgust at Austria for insisting on sending Austrian police "to apprehend the black murderers" of the Crown Prince. Today, you, acting in conjunction with many others who, I fear, have had very little dealings, directly or otherwise, with Mexicans or with any of the Americans murdered in Mexico, conscientiously and sincerely, but none the loss erroneously, advocate and applaud our doing...
...ministers and editors in the country who, in spite of absolute proof that the Reds have planned to overthrow this government, persist in fanning the flame of anarchism by urging from pulpit and press that these demons be coddled and petted and ultimately "Americanized." With what feigned anxiety they apprehend the approach of an autocracy where in there will be, and should be, a moral standard to be reached before an immigrant sets sets foot on American shores! Ah! It is too bad indeed for the workers in a hive to lay up honey only to have it devoured...