Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Buffalo): "Unhappy and unlucky are those who, for all their hate of national socialism, hope against hope to oppose our successive steps down the desperate road to war, who cannot bring themselves to believe that opposition to the evils of Naziism drives us, by logic and fate, straight to the battlefields...
...absorbed in every rumor, follow their own advantages in such a crisis, pursue their old rivalries, go way up and way down in their views of the war and their own responsibility? In effect, Ambassador Winant asked: "How can people take the defense effort so lightly when the fate of two great peoples-the British and the American-is at stake...
Cried the London Sunday Express: "Do we even now understand that we are at death grips in a fight for our lives? We do not. . . . These crowds of people . . . were symptoms of a fatal frame of mind. Their peril and their fate were at the back of that mind. Custom and habit were at the front of it. . . . If the cause of the shut down is lack of raw materials, then a sad situation exists. If the cause is 'holiday is as usual,' then a scandalous situation exists...
...became Kaiser at 29, after his ailing father had ruled for 99 days. Determined to rule in his own right, he dismissed Bismarck two years later, in 1890. Historians blame his dropping of the canny old Chancellor for the fate that ultimately humbled Germany, and certainly Wilhelm's arrogance and indiscretion made him many enemies. He got huffy with his Uncle Bertie (Edward VII of Great Britain) after his father's funeral, and in 1896 enraged all Britain by sending a telegram of sympathy to the Boer leader, Oom Paul Kruger. He refused to renew the Reinsurance Treaty...
Thus last week wrote the New Yorker's Janet Planner-now in the U.S. but long the New Yorker's Paris correspondent in one of the best recent reports on the humiliating fate of the French press. A sobering document, it deserved double reading since the French press-by its own venalities, and its failure to see and warn the French people of the weaknesses of France-must be held in good part accountable for the disaster in which it is a chief victim...