Word: disillusional
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Disillusion came to him, as to most Americans, and on March 4, 1920, he wrote of Woodrow Wilson: "He has toppled from his pedestal. His European interference has won him European hatreds and his American autocracy has cost him American friends. His erstwhile foreign wards stand appalled at his posture...
"Spaniards: I well know your disillusion and your fears. . . .
Valentim Bougas of Brazil, President-Dictator Getulio Vargas' discreet financial negotiator, was active behind the scenes. Genial, foxy Sefior Bougas, a veteran of many conferences, tagged this one like the rest: "First comes the illusion, then disillusion, finally reality."
I am greatly encouraged by the critical, skeptical and even carping spirit in which our proceedings have been watched in the outside world. How much better that our projects should begin in disillusion than that they should end in it.
Young, ambitious Barrister Smuts began his political career as a follower of Cecil Rhodes. No disciple ever suffered more heartsickening disillusion. Impatient Cecil Rhodes stood unmasked as one of the plotters of the famed Jameson Raid (1895), which would have pulled sturdy Oom (uncle) Paul Kruger's Transvaal Republic...