Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who despair of achieving that end. . . . For years we have had men in Washington who were notoriously weak in certain branches of arithmetic-but who specialized in division. They have played up minor differences of opinion until the people of other countries might have thought that America was cleft...
...that event, the official Germans tell one another, the occupied countries of Europe would again fall into despair. The U.S. and Britain would be shaken beyond repair; Roosevelt and Churchill would surely fall. "With its war won anyway," Russia would make its own peace with the Reich...
...Price of Despair. From Algiers came a vivid indictment of Washington's policy of limited, insufficient recognition (all hands blamed President Roosevelt more than Prime Minister Churchill). Cabled New York Timesman Harold Callender, who used to defend the State Department's attitude toward De Gaulle...
...French Committee [is] in a mood of mingled despair-despair over the immediate outlook from their point of view -and puzzlement at the Allies' attitude, which is believed here to result from an incredible lack of comprehension of French problems...
...with Despair? Washington stood pat. A correspondent summed up the State Department view...