Word: idealization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...represented the finest type of young American manhood, the type that reflects the greatest credit upon our country. He had won the highest regard of all with whom he had been brought in contact. He was an ideal soldier, gay, gallant, and ever ready for duty...
...should like to correct the passage in the CRIMSON'S account of my address before the Cosmopolitan Club on Friday evening, in which I am represented as having spoken of the Russian Socialist parties as "led by men who for the most part are not honest fighters for an ideal, but German agents, who wish to stop the war and incourage a social revolution." Naturally, I made no such sweeping and unjustifiable indictment. But I did use substantially the words cited above with regard to some leaders of the most radical wing of the Russian Socialists, the Bolsheviki. This statement...
...between the socialist parties and the bourgeoisie; the total paralysis of the government; the widespread demoralization of the army; and the economic chaos. Between the future fates of Russia lie only the Russian socialistic parties, led by men who for the most part, are not honest fighters for an ideal but German agents who wish to stop the war and encourage a social revolution. Such men have also played a large part in the demoralization of the army, preaching insideous doctrines of giving up all offensive and defensive warfare as being against the highest republican principles. However, the strong hand...
...near future, peace tends to become more a political than a military question. The problem of offering a more exact statement of our war aims assumes new interest. The many long and weary months of war are bound to cause a shifting of emphasis from the immaterial ideal with which we entered the war to the material results of victory. We are more apt to stress the importance of winning or losing a few miles of shell torn fields in northern France than of preventing the formation of a Mitteleuropa. Casualty lists and the first complaints at heavy taxes will...
...very nature, an army is a militaristic and autocratic organization, the consummate ideal of the Hohenzollerns. That is to say, America is perfecting herself in the evil which she wishes to eradicate from Germany. Therefore, if the United States is to sincerely uphold the doctrines set forth by President Wilson in reply to the Pope's peace offer, it cannot be too emphatically impressed on every single man, woman and child that we must keep our ideals constantly before us, least in the excitement of war and the enthusiasm of our ultimate victory we fall into the well from which...