Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were whittled lower & lower. Besides attrition, further weakening of the R. A. F.-to which Premier Reynaud paid glowing tribute-by the withdrawal of planes for the defense of Great Britain (see p. 27) was all too possible. Any way it was looked at, the task before Weygand was grim. All week he must have labored desperately, but the atmosphere at his headquarters was as calm, brisk, full of encouragement as it should be around a commander. Said he: "I am full of confidence if everyone does his duty with driving energy...
Slowly the President's car drove along the little line of men wearing badges: "White House, May 15." He looked back and waved. The car turned the corner, and Franklin Roosevelt put aside the grim vision of 1918, faced the grim vision of 1940. The first responsibility of grim 1940 was preparedness against another war. For the leader of the richest nation on earth the easiest part of preparedness was money for that he went to Congress. Not so easy was the job of turning money into war material. That last week was his gravest unsolved problem for that...
There were cool heads. Deeper than the widely reported hysteria was a grim determination to prepare for anything. One tremendous shift was apparent: the rising wind of world events had for a time at least blown away Isolationism. There were still Isolationists in the U. S. but they were themselves isolated from the feeling of the nation as a whole if not from reality...
...strands all converge. If America is truly anxious to remain free of the war at the cost of a Hitler victory--and this is the grim possibility that must be faced--then the first essential is to get rid of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and the entire present administration as quickly as possible. Subtle suggestions of a need for "national unity" in the "crisis of civilization," which are now being employed in an apparent attempt to present America with a third term fait accompli, must be rejected. And in the meantime, those whose daily prayer it is that...
...Asian Odyssey is the grim memoir of a White Russian artillery officer, who served under General Kolchak and Baron von Ungern-Sternberg against the Bolsheviks in Siberia and Mongolia. While many a book has been written about the Russian Red and White armies, and at least two biographies about the fantastically sadistic Ungern-Sternberg, none has more simply or vividly described the incredible hardships and cruelties of a fight which will long rank with the more shuddering chapters of Russian history...