Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Argued Tom Connally: bringing the resolution to the floor of the Senate would only provoke a bitter debate, in which some Senators would have an anti-British, anti-Russian field day (ten out of 23 of his own Committeemen are pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists). In short, Tom Connally does not want to start the Great Debate. But Connally takes his lead in foreign affairs from the White House, and plain indications are that Franklin Roosevelt wants to write the peace with as little Congressional interference as possible. The result, suggested by levelheaded Columnist
...Sicily the Germans had three and one half divisions. ... It took the two best Armies of the U.S. and Great Britain, containing a total of 13 divisions, five weeks to overcome the bitter defense of an enemy whose air cover had been removed and whose supply lines were paralyzed. . . . Today in Italy we are faced with nearly 20 German divisions; beyond Italy are the Alps, a formidable natural defense line, and many more German divisions. At the present time, Germany is capable of opposing any attack on a vital portion of her European defense with at least ten times...
...regiment had fought off day attacks. It had been sleepless for two nights. Now it had not only hope but a deep and bitter hatred. There were a great many Americans killed and wounded when the Germans had the upper hand. There were dead men who had been old buddies of the survivors, who had trained with them at home and fought successfully with them in Sicily. There is still fierce fighting for this bridgehead, but this regiment will yet avenge its dead...
Airmen in Britain, main base of the air offensive against Germany, had to swallow a bitter pill. The war was not being fought their way. They were not, after all, waging the all-out campaign which they looked forward to a few months ago. Instead of fighting for victory from the air, they were fighting toward further victory by the ground armies...
...bitter about this. . . . Why did we not all sign? Simply because we were convinced that a surrender to C.I.O. was a bad thing for our companies, for our employes; indeed for the U.S. of America. . . . We were determined to fight...