Word: hating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After years of angry rebuttal to the Lampoon's annual selection of the worsts of the year, Hollywood has thus far remained uniquely silent in the face of the publication of the latest hate list by the proverbially funny college magazine...
This is an all out war. It is a war in which the civilians are fully as important a factor as the armed forces. We must not only hate the little yellow warrior; not only despise the war party that has created them; but we must learn to loathe every Japanese boy and girl who gather rice in the fields, or go without food so that the yellow army can bomb our shores. It is the people, the customs, the culture,--every least part of the Japanese civilization that is symbolized by a spider or an octopus in the cartoons...
This is the paradox which has nurtured the hate racket. But it is based on the assumption that the only way to make American democracy worth fighting for is to blacken the way of life of every nation which threatens democracy. This assumption is false. The American people do not have to be doped with the adrenaline of hate journalism. All they need is the facts: the facts about the strength of their own forces, about the actual danger which is facing them. If the newspapers and magazines of the country would spend less effort on giving them unnecessary excuses...
...Lease, said: "It might have been better if the United States had augmented the defenses of those vitally important places [Far Eastern bases] rather than expend time and material in creation of the bases which we leased them in the West Indies and Newfoundland." > Laborite Richard Rapier Stokes: "I hate to think of the military center of control shifting to Washington. It gives me a nasty feeling . . . that we may find ourselves reduced to what I term occupying the position of America's Helgoland off the coast of Europe...
...part of a hard-boiled Broadway guy fits him perfectly, and Warner Brothers, who are not usually slow to recognize a good thing when they have it, would do well to keep him in parts like this, instead of making him a bloodthirsty gangster whom everybody is supposed to hate and who dies a well-deserved death at the hands of the police...