Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just as an example, said Mr. Roosevelt, one intemperate red-baiting speech, accusing the New Deal of plotting with Communists, had been happily seized on by 13 Republican Congressmen. "They evidently thought highly of this document, for they had more than 3,000,000 copies printed free* by the Government Printing Office . . . and sent through the mails at the taxpayers' expense...
This Willkie declaration, articulating the feelings first of thousands, then of millions, became a historical document which has obvious implications for today...
Wonderful, Epoch-Making. Britons were delighted. The press greeted the plan with a roar of approval, pushed the war off the front pages to make room for it. The Times hailed it as "an epoch-making document," the Daily Express as "a wonderful scheme." Only sour note came from the 5,700 approved benefit societies and from the industrial-insurance companies whose activities will be curtailed, if not abolished, by the plan. Said a spokesman: "We shall fight...
This was indeed a Carthaginian peace. But Henry Morgenthau believes that Germany must be destroyed, as Carthage was. When he visited the battlefields last October, General Eisenhower showed him a booklet outlining Allied Military Government directives to soldiers for the occupation of Germany. This was strictly a military document drafted by the War Department. Henry Morgenthau, fanatical Naziphobe, was much exercised over several passages which to his mind were indications of a too lenient attitude. He lifted these passages and put them in a memorandum to the President...
Near Luxembourg the Allies found a purported Hitler staff document. It called on officers to save themselves at all costs: "An officer's salvation in retreat is in the interests of the country." (Lately there has been a low percentage of officers among prisoners taken.) There was other evidence that officer groups, cut off in Holland, were deserting their men, either to save themselves to lead an untried, last-ditch army of civilians and military misfits or to go underground to keep Naziism alive...