Word: candor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Douglas MacArthur once said in the Philippines: "The United States has ordered me to defend these islands. I propose to defend them." Having defended them to the utmost, he spoke in candor and earnestness when he now proposed to relieve them. On his way southward he spoke incessantly of retaking the Philippines. If it was an obsession-perhaps a little out of focus with his new and larger task in Australia-it was natural for a man who had been through what he had in 94 days of fierce fighting and brilliant resistance...
Moreover, from Barnes's candor at its most candid, it appeared that haste and Hitler were not the only villains of the piece. The ghost of NRA, he revealed, still stalks the ship repair yards. Because Todd competitor United Drydock (since bought by Bethlehem Steel) was in danger of going broke, the NRA code fixed all repair yard rates on the basis of daily wages paid, plus 35 or 40% overhead, plus machine rentals, plus 10% "profits." The arrival of war and a flood of Government work found this antique formula still in effect. As the yards filled, overhead...
...ideal reporter. When she was Frau Dr. Ullstein in 1930, she was the storm center of a sensational Berlin spy trial involving the once-great Ullstein publishing house. Later, as plain Rosie Goldschmidt, she wrote (under the initials R.G.) Prelude to the Past, in which she described with unusual candor the Ullstein affair and one or two of her own. Still later she married the Hungarian Count Waldeck, a marriage in which friendship and German passport considerations were deftly blended. She is now in Manhattan...
...aristocratic Scotsman and career diplomat, Sir Archibald became noted among the Chinese for his personal and official friendliness. He was instrumental in selling the idea of China's thousands of industrial cooperatives to Mme. Chiang Kaishek, treated the Japanese aggressors in China with such flat, undiplomatic candor that whenever he went into Japanese-fringed Shanghai he had to wear a bulletproof vest. He will be succeeded in China by Sir Horace James Seymour, 56, Assistant Under Secretary of State. Sir Archibald may be useful in Moscow, but he will be missed in Chungking at a time when the Chinese...
...give momentary solace to the enemies of democracy. In the long run, it is certain that democracy's ability to publish such news and criticism will improve its ability to fight and preserve undiminished faith and courage. The dark flame of Winston Churchill's candor and its galvanic effect on the British people are mortally hated and feared by the Nazis, who try to conceal their mistakes until concealment becomes impossible...