Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There will be no clear guide post to reconstruction. The governments that claimed to be revolutionary will have failed as much as they insist that the older forms of government failed. "I do not believe that new appeals to hatred stand the slightest chance. . . . There is disillusionment even with hatred. . . . We were taught to hate autocracy and militarism; and the hatred proved sterile ... in the name of social reform, we were asked to indulge class hatred . . . underneath the whole tangle of forces which has produced the present disaster, there is beginning to be a complete rejection of the whole thesis...
...eliminating "legitimate rights and interests" of the U. S. in China. This unctuousness, coming just after U. S.-Japanese trade relations fell treatyless, was punctured by a sentence which was a cactus of innuendo: International conflict, said Mr. Arita, is "largely due to the fact that some nations insist upon trying to maintain an irrational and unjust international status quo relative to race, religion, territory, resources, trade, immigration and other matters by adopting exclusionist policies or by abusing their superior positions...
...peace, we must raise our voices in defense of civil liberties, of the Bill of Rights, wherever and however they may be infringed; we must particularly emphasize that the bargaining rights of labor be not curtailed as is proposed, for instance, by the suggested M-day plan; we must insist on freedom of speech for all religious groups and all political parties, and for all attitudes towards the war. We must exert our influence to see that strict neutrality is observed without hedging. There must be no loans to belligerents, which might, as in 1917, tend to involve...
...protection against poison gas; that its pleats harbor cooties; that when wet it galls the knees, when icy cuts them, making the "Ladies from Hell" roll their stockings high, like U. S. college girls. But they deny the War Office contention that kilts take too much wool, and they insist that the kilt is more healthful for Scots than trousers because they are accustomed to a warm wrapping for the abdomen...
Said Secretary Woodring in his report: "Whatever is the decision as to the size of our Army-our Initial Protective Force-450,000, 500,000 or 600,000, I must urgently insist that that force decided upon be complete as to personnel, as to materiel, and that it be 100% efficient as to training. Our Military Establishment must be an 'Army in Being...