Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: I liked your treatment of the infamous "Yoo-Hoo" affair (TIME, July 21). But let's let the following bit of advice be the final word on the subject: Oh, give a cheer for General Lear, Defender of womankind...
...When the Germans ordered him to have his own posters of cheer and encouragement to his people covered over, he covered them with transparent oiled paper...
...scrapped. Something else will be tried, perhaps the one-man control of defense that patriots like Wendell Willkie have been crying for. In the prospect that all this may have to be done after the U.S. has gone to war, not even an isolationist could find anything to cheer about...
...crated airplanes, around the Cape of Good Hope-thus keeping them "out of action for the best part of three months." Apparently the British command had judged it unwise to spare for so long a time many of the weapons which might have fortified Crete. There was little to cheer about in this revelation...
That is what you are trying to make us "ungullible" Americans believe-that we are blind. Alas, dear editor of a forthright but unrepresentative periodical, it is you who are blind. It is you who cannot see that the real Americans that count (not the 10% who cheer the flags waving in the newsreels) cannot in any way condone convoying ships to Britain, using our Navy for protecting somebody else's welfare, or getting us into...