Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colleges last week jiggled a hot potato: Could they welcome Japanese students, even though loyal to the U.S., to their campuses? The man who passed them this hot potato was University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul. Sympathizing with his 300 Nisei (American-born Japanese) students, whom he had to evacuate, Dr. Sproul asked 32 inland colleges (all west of the Mississippi) to admit them. The University of Washington followed suit, but extended its request to universities east of the Mississippi...
...Chief Archibald MacLeish, in Manhattan speeches to conventions of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and Associated Press, asked loyal U.S. editors to purge their own ranks of "minority elements of the American press which are actively engaged in influencing American opinion in directions which lead not to victory . . . but to defeat...
MacLeish did not name names, but he urged the editors to act because the Government cannot, without endangering "the freedom of the honest editor and the loyal publisher," because "the most poisonous and pervasive defeatism is not practiced by those who violate the statutes of their country openly. It is practiced by those who take scrupulous care to stay within the law - to come, as one of them is reported to have told his staff, 'as close to treason as I dare...
...moral protest. It meant that they gave up comfortable incomes for their convictions-for in Norway, as in Germany, the State pays clerical salaries, as well as the cost of church administration, church building and church repairs. Now Quisling will pay only the salaries of the few clergymen loyal to him and support only those churches which give allegiance to his government. But the hardy Norse will undoubtedly find ways to back their spiritual leaders materially as well as morally. The Confessional Church in Germany has existed entirely on such secret gifts since...
...then Freedom announces, 'Hello, everyone, everywhere. . . .' Filipinos from occupied cities and areas told us how the people cluster around muffled radios for the Freedom broadcasts, then pass the word along, via grapevine. The broadcasts have been successful because they are written assuming that the Filipinos are all loyal, which is true...