Word: condemn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfortunately the more articulate college students are either Communist-minded or are influenced by Communistically inclined professors. (I don't say this in any Red-baiting sense. I am well aware of the temptation to condemn any liberal movement as Communistic. But this thing is a fact-I once attended a meeting of representatives from all Pacific Coast colleges, for example, where it was solemnly proposed that we should work to dissolve the Boy Scouts as they engendered the militaristic spirit...
...still permitted to call this not idealism blinking at reality, but realistic opinion soundly based on historical fact. When we condemn preparedness as leading straight to war, we are thinking only of 1916 and 1917. When we say war attains none of the ideals to which it pretends, we are thinking only of American intervention once before. Then there were the same ideals and the same fears. In a stunningly brief interval, all that seems to have been forgotten. The "inexorable logic of events" has driven the American people to "gratifying" new realism-a logic and a realism given edifying...
...when Colonel Lindbergh uses the prestige of his fame to speak for national isolation, he is doing as an individual exactly what he is condemning the country for doing as a nation. America is using its prestige, its strength, and its potential force to condemn international gangsterism. Colonel Lindbergh objects. He says our duty is solely in our own back yard. If the Colonel were logical, he would sit quietly in his own back yard. If he feels his duties as a citizen force him to protest-then he should see that America's duty as a citizen...
...fight now going on directed against fascism? If so, is it not necessary to condemn fascism without equivocation to resist it effectively? Are not half-hearted measures fatal, as they are doomed to failure and hasten the extension to the rest of the world of the social and economic system which already exists in Germany, Italy, and Spain...
...note: The Crimson did not give blanket support to the candidacy of Robert A. Taft, or condemn in any way the social aims of the New Deal. The statement that the New Deal must be scrapped because of the dangers of its foreign policy was not intended, though the implication was mistakenly made. The purpose of the editorial was to express the hope that issues of foreign policy will be clearly drawn in the coming campaign...