Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victory from the air -"I think it proper to express a word of caution against hasty conclusions or impromptu conceptions. ... I am convinced more & more each day that only by a proper combination of war-making means can we achieve victory in the shortest possible time and with the greatest economy in life. . . . Your adversary may be hammered to his knees by bombing, but he will recover unless the knockout blow is delivered by the ground army...
...monitors picked up Tokyo's interpretation of U.S. zoot-suit riots: "The zoot-suiters are isolationist fighters. They are strong, courageous young men who have banded together in a nationwide army to express by physical force their disapproval of the war. They are intent on spilling their blood in their own country for their own sacred ideals...
Hearst Moves In. But then the press took up the story. The Hearst newspapers, the Los Angeles Examiner and the Herald & Express, and Harry Chandler's Los Angeles Times began to blaze. Late-afternoon editions printed black-faced leads about a purported anonymous call to headquarters: "We're meeting 500 strong tonight and we're going to kill every cop we see." The Hearst Herald & Express bannered: ZOOTERS THREATEN L. A. POLICE...
...great emotion-the emotion of a people which has found courage, found arms, the hope of democratic freedom and the will to resist-is the overriding element in the situation. . . . France is finding herself. . . . [She] will force to the front the voices which can express that faith and the men who can fight for it. It was this emotional content in the whole situation . . . which our official policy never seemed to appreciate...
...Herald. In World War I he was rejected for military service. His stormy visits to the U.S., his bitter criticisms of Republican administrations, his standing as an authority on America in Britain and on Britain in America, the force with which he states definitively views that other state planners express obliquely, give him and his works a consequence that his opponents cannot ignore...