Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Franklin Roosevelt: "Joy . . . entered . . . hearts." General John J. Pershing reminisced on: ". . . the heart of France." Correct old Cordell Hull unbended to sum up: "Heartening...
...assumed the right to kill us like dogs in the street. That has created a very dangerous psychological mood. The people of the liberated countries will be sensitive, suspicious and unbelieving. It will require great understanding on the part of the Allies. . . . I, myself, go with the great joy of a man returning to his home. But I go with fear for what I may find-and for whom I may not find." Ready to follow the Red Army into his homeland, Frantisek Nemec knew whereof he spoke. When he last heard of his wife and daughter, they were...
...decorated with American and British flags, and the townspeople take wine and cider to the soldiers who stop their trucks and jeeps in the streets. Seeing these things, you could be carried away by sentiment and say that the oppressed French are welcoming their liberators with tears of joy. But that would not be the whole truth...
Land of Candor. When the Americans and the British came, therefore, the people did not welcome them with unmixed joy. At first, when bombs rained down and shells poured in from the sea on their towns and villages and fields, crumbling their houses, destroying their cattle, killing and wounding many people, they wondered if it would be to any good purpose. They were afraid the invaders would be driven into the sea and they would have only death and destruction and the Germans again. Later, when they saw the masses of men and weapons streaming through the countryside and looked...
...always, lovely flowers were for sale at the foot of the Spanish Steps. Famous restaurants were open. In one, the San Carlo, Proprietor Umberto Storci fell with joy on the neck of an old customer, New York Timesman Herbert Matthews. Said...