Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everyman. Listening tothe people talk, the pollsters found awe, fear, cynicism, confusion, hope-but mostly confused fear and hopeful confusion. They found a substantial minority expectation that atomic experiments will end the world some day, a vague majority confidence that somehow everything would work out and that man would somehow...
The four Republican members (others: Maine's Senator Owen Brewster, California's Congressman Bert Gearhart) had hoped to ferret out some damaging facts about Franklin Roosevelt's prewar conduct. To date, they had failed, although they had helped to bring to light damaging evidence of Army and...
Whatever the truth, that little safe in Norway promised more confusion and intrigue among the Habsburgs. Already Norwegians, descendants of the lithographer, were claiming the crown of Austria.
"Hydra-Headed Confusion." Next morning Jimmy Byrnes met War Secretary Patterson and Navy Secretary Forrestal to draft a policy directive for Ambassador Hurley. It was in the same nebulous terms as before. It called for continuing support of Chiang Kai-shek's Government but avoided any clear-cut U.S...
At that, Pat Hurley blew up. He released his statement to newsmen. The statement was a violent but confused attack on a policy which, he said, had let the U.S. be "sucked into a power bloc on the side of colonial imperialism." But his two-by-four whacked hard and...