Word: assertions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want in this column to show how our aims are being controverted by our actions. I want to express the importance of the simple and individual emotions in moulding a faith that will be strong enough to assert itself as the faith of the world...
...collapses, an attack on Siberia would be only the preface to further expansion in the East Indies. We can't appease Japan any more than we can appease Germany. It's time for us to draw a line, and if they cross it, to shoot. The more strongly we assert this, the less chance there is of our actually having to fight...
...that it is not mastering the complexity of its industrial life. The U.S. that emerges has shortages in many things-in raw materials, steel, power, transportation-but they argue that it has its greatest shortage in ideas, ideas of what it can do and how it can win. They assert that it has the men who can put the ideas into effect-but that the men have not been called. So far, in the great fields of its efforts, they find that the U.S. is not winning. It is losing, and it is losing fast...
...were unable to accommodate themselves spiritually and practically to that fact. Hence they have failed to play their part as a world power -a failure which has had disastrous consequences for themselves and for all mankind." Luce calls on the U.S. to be as big as its opportunity, to assert that nationalism which is the virility of healthy nations. For "we are the inheritors of all the great principles of Western civilization...
...spreading his propaganda, Friedrich declared, Hitler does not assert what he wishes us to believe; he assumes it in his statements. To implant the idea that the Nazis will win the war, he does not say that "Germany will win" but instead "after the war, America should trade with a victorious Germany...