Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Until he resigned as High Commissioner for the Western Pacific in 1942, Sir Harry spent 34 years in the British Colonial Service learning about seas, islands, and evil men. From his London retirement last week, Sir Harry spoke on what to do with Axis chiefs after the war: "The ideal place of residence for them . . . would be Falcon Island in the Pacific. It is a volcanic type and sinks into the sea for a period of years and then rises again...
Appearances had no place in 64-year-old Security Planner Sir William Henry Beveridge's blueprint for "the ideal wife." Said the groom of three months: "She should be intelligent without being intellectual, keen without being earnest, silent without being stupid...
...some stimulus is to be broadly effective, then the ideal of the coming human fraternity, "the truth that the world, like the human self, has its own unity in a living purpose," cannot reside only in the distant words of philosophers. Such truths and ideals must be the equipment of millions of humble leaders close to the task. Americans are too close to their destiny to rely only on a few far-away leaders. They must find near at hand those who can formulate the causes, interpret principle in definite acts, nourish their spirit by giving them tasks to work...
...this night, Madame Chiang revealed the world ideal that drives her. She spoke of two concepts, expressed in Chinese as ho-tsung (concerted effort), and lien-heng (imperialism), called up from China's tapestried past a lesson for the world of tomorrow...
...skidded into regrettable Sandburg-&-ketchup prose poetry this could have been a much better book. Even as it stands, it is a clear, vivid warning and bracer to that man-in-the-street who makes or breaks democracies, seldom reads books, and is this book's ideal reader...