Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typical of what was happening in millions of minds was the reaction of M. Leon Blum, Socialist leader of the most influential party in France and the only Jew ever to become its Premier. "War has probably been averted," wrote Editor Blum in Le Populaire, "but I feel myself divided between cowardly relief and my sense of shame." Only 36 hours later Leon Blum blazed up and withdrew his Socialist Party's support from the demands which French Premier Edouard Daladier and British Prime Minister Chamberlain had made upon Prague. Although these demands had just been ''unanimously...
Meanwhile, President Benes and Premier Hodza "yielded unconditionally" to the Anglo-French demands. This may have been smart, too, for the news that Prague had apparently crumpled up in abject surrender caused Adolf Hitler to feel that he need not hurl the German Army at once into Sudetenland. Finally, it was smart for the Hodza Cabinet to resign as soon as it had "yielded unconditionally," thus clearing the way for a fresh Czecho-slovak Government with a clean slate...
...President Dr. John Alexander Mackay, an articulate, lofty-minded Presbyterian with missionary experience, summed the matter up in his "historymaking" inaugural address at Princeton last year: "The new crusading religions (Fascism, Naziism, Communism) . . . are schooled in massive thought systems, which make the average Christians who come up against them feel like infants. . . . The churches must return to theology and begin to agonize about the formulation of belief, or they will perish...
Readers of Alcott's Journals are likely to feel about Alcott much as New Englanders of his day did-first interested, then exasperated, ultimately admiring and fond. Alcott was no parlor philosopher...
...diary. Of sure taste, he inspired Emerson, recognized Whitman, Thoreau, Melville and Lowell when they were unknown, made critical appraisals of them which still stand. Readers of his Journals will have no difficulty in seeing why Emerson and Hawthorne praised him so highly, are likely to feel it more puzzling that he has been neglected for so long...