Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acting Republican National Committeeman, William Reichel, explains the immediate hopes of California Republicans simply and bluntly. "I'm pro-Warren and pro-California," he says. "We want something to bargain with for California. We're not anti-anyone. Our program is sound. It's got logic. We have 50 convention delegates. We are big and strong and important and we're going to get something. At the convention our votes will get us a western Cabinet member, a western Supreme Court Justice and a western man on every high policy-making body in the Government. That...
...Soldiers' Logic. Mr. Roosevelt had sent his message to Congress and to the nation, but another address was written on it in invisible ink: "To the Soldiers...
Last week, this soldier logic was Mr. Roosevelt's. "The shrewdest and most successful practical politician of our time" may have convinced himself that the way to get in tune with the listeners at home is to speak with the voice of the soldiers abroad...
...this façade is deceptive. Behind it hides a strong and active mind, a harshness of will and temper. Ability and toughness brought Junker von Manstein, with his discipline and logic, close to plebeian Adolf Hitler, with his psychoses and intuition. Hitler must have respect for this good soldier. Manstein may have no respect for his Führer, but he bears him loyalty as the chief of state...
Behind the Algiers Committee lay some seven months of painful, slow accomplishment; ahead, its hardest task. What the Committee wanted now, on the eve of invasion, was full recognition as the provisional government of France. It could defend the right to represent all France with better logic than most Allied-sponsored governments in exile. But, in official Allied opinion, it did not have their legitimacy...