Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Beardsley Ruml, the famed expert on taxes, merchandising and public psychology: "I have heard people say that The Bomb bores them. I feel certain that it is not The Bomb that bores them, but what is said about The Bomb...
...they feel moral guilt for their aggression? A. In general, no. How the minority of unreconstructed militarists justify Japanese aggression to themselves can only be guessed - they are damn care ful right now to keep their mouths shut. At the opposite extreme the ardent peace advocates (like Kagawa) of course feel that the militarists are guilty. The great majority of Japs, including Premier Shidehara, believe in peace as a policy. But they still re gard Japan as the aggrieved party in the events leading up to the China war. They are not conscious of having adopted a national policy...
...they feel moral guilt for the atrocities committed by their armies? A. Unquestionably, yes. These things genuinely shock them as con traventions of their moral code. In dividual Japs committed more bar barities than the Germans...
...sure if the circumstances were reversed and we or the Americans asked for similar access to the Russian arsenal, it would not be granted. ... I cannot myself feel the slightest anxiety as a Brit ish subject that these great powers are at the present moment in the hands of the United States. ... We should aid the United States to guard this weapon as a sacred trust for the maintenance of peace...
...position of the Vatican on collaborationist clergymen was not clearly defined. Official feeling was embodied in an age-old, unwritten law of the Church that its prelates, like Caesar's wife, must be above suspicion. The law is, in effect: any prelate whose personal conduct, past or present, gives rise to discussion or dissension which might reflect unfavorably on the Church must feel duty-bound-guilty or not-to renounce his dignity to prevent adverse discussion of the Church...