Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tailored business suits in the great financial centers of New York or Boston, men who make a dollars-&-cents profit by setting race against race in the far away South." Wallace added: "If the U.S. does not get right on the segregation problem, she will lose her position of leadership in world affairs...
...deceive us ... The Western nations have ceased to be the exclusive masters and architects of the world . . . What I have in mind is Western man's apparent fear, frustration and helplessness in dealing with the great issues of our times. Anxiety about the advancing social transformations under the leadership of the Soviet Union is depriving the average Western citizen of a real grasp of the situation . . . [Communism represents] much of the social impetus of the living church from the Apostolic age down through the days of monastic orders to the Reformation and liberal humanism...
...protect our spiritual values." But Lindbergh's new religion is almost as nationalist as his old pre-Pearl Harbor politics: "For Americans, the doctrine of universal equality is a doctrine of death . . . Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership...
...Buddha," he declares. To Lindbergh, science "intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition." Once science has helped mankind to separate "the truths of God . . . from the dogma which surrounds them ... we still have the possibility, here in America, of building a civilization based on Man, where . . . leadership rests on the respect and confidence it instills in others, and whose standard of life is the quality of life itself...
...Harry Truman, a scuttle of ashes: "A genuine if superficial liberal, but so inept that he cannot give effective liberal leadership in the extraordinarily unlikely event of his election, much less in his defeat...