Word: candor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always he has anticipated, with the mind of a lightning calculator, what it was that his country would need. He was an Asiatic expansionist before the Manchukuo Incident, a totalitarian seven years before the Konoye reorganization. The crew haircut, the round, boy's face, the carefree smile, the candor, the courtesy, the mystic organ-note of his speechifying, all mask the hard core of the opportunist who has made of himself what he is and hopes to make of himself still more...
...then, under special pressure, a Japanese diplomat startles the world with a statement of plain, simple candor, and such a statement came last week from bony little Kenkichi Yoshizawa, head of Japan's economic mission to The Netherlands East Indies. He had been politely informed last fortnight that The Netherlands East Indies had not the least idea of allowing Japan increased shipments of rubber, oil and tin. Speaking over the telephone to the Tokyo press, Commissioner Yoshizawa said: "The choice before us would seem to be either statesmanship or physical force...
Nonetheless, President Valentine last week explained that his university had decided to kudize Winston Churchill for "his distinction as a historian ... his position as the elected leader of a great and friendly democracy ... the courage, candor and effectiveness with which he is leading his nation. . . ." At commencement exercises this week he handed Dr. Churchill's diploma to Noel Hall, British Minister to Washington, and eulogized to the Prime Minister by transatlantic radio: ". . . Our hearts speak out to England. . . . Our common cause is freedom. . . .Winston Churchill, no longer historian and statesman, but symbol of Britain aroused . . . America admires...
...which, after a hundred years of faults and fumbling, was designed to make fast friends of 125,000,000 other Americans who had never before quite trusted us." Wertenbaker credits the complementary statesmanship of three very different Americans for this success-the hemispheric consciousness of President Roosevelt, the simple candor of Cordell Hull and the behind-the-scenes effectiveness of Sumner Welles. Says Author Wertenbaker: "The President is the idea man, Hull translates the ideas into policy, Welles attends to the details." At Lima, Hull singlehandedly held the anti-hemispheric forces to a draw. How strong these forces are Wertenbaker...
Playwright Barry replied to the generally unfavorable criticism of Liberty Jones with an article in the New York World-Telegram: ". . . I knew that to be what I wanted it to be it must have a childlike candor, a simplicity, an innocence. ... I wanted the play to have a pristine quality-to look like a fresh-minted dime and to spin like one. I think it does...