Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is at the present time a great deal of loose thinking passing under the name of "International" which discredits the genuine ideal which it preaches. This is particularly true among American colleges where intellectual immaturity in not challenged by reality...
...loose thinking on this subject which is current today arises from the confused definition of the international ideal. There are many people who assume a vague, emotional attitude toward world problems; they oppose war as a matter of general principle, they are interested in Communist Russia and in American socialism, they have an ignorant faith in the League of Nations as a political cure-all and they insist eloquently that Frenchmen and Germans are every bit as good as they are. The danger is that these people set up an ideal of an International Man, whom they confuse with...
Internationalism without the basis of a national tradition is like a friendship between men who have no individuality. There are, of course, many working for real internationalism but they are hampered by those who preach an ideal built in the air. Before the international ideal can be made real it will be necessary for nations to understand their own tradition. Nations like the United States must come of age before they can be partners in a cooperative world...
...Register. Declared Mr. Darling last week: "As I looked up I saw a commanding figure 6 ft. tall, with the strength of a giant in his powerful hands and arms. With his ruddy cheeks, blue overalls and a kindly twinkle in his eyes, he struck me as being the ideal representative of the Iowa agriculturist." But Mr. Cook was no farmer. Born in New York State, he had lived in Iowa more than half a century, first as a grain dealer, later as a farm implement merchant...
...that time no united Germany or reich existed, and the words were unquestionably an appeal to the Germanic peoples to place "[united] Germany above all [other ideals], above all in the World!" After Bismarck achieved the ideal of unity by creating the German Empire, many of the Kaiser's subjects sang the old song in the sense of "Germany, Germany above all [other lands], above all in the World!" Some German pacifists object as strongly to Deutschland, Deutschland iiber Alles as do U. S. pacifists to "the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting...