Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend, who was a foe? In Hawaii no one could be sure of the answer. Probably most of the Islands' 150,000 Japanese were loyal; perhaps, again, they were not. Last week Hawaii again suffered from the white man's old shortcoming-of not being able to tell one yellow man from another, nor-the loyal from the disloyal. It was an overwhelming problem. For the Japs were everywhere-behind shop counters in Honolulu, serving as gardeners on almost every island, cutting cane on all plantations, fishing off the coasts. Many of them were working on defense projects...
Sirs: Years ago, when we were both students at Cornell, the present Chinese Ambassador gave me a simple and unfailing rule for telling our loyal friends from Japanese: Chinese have monosyllabic, Japanese polysyllabic names. This test is far easier than calipers. . . . J. V. DEPORTE New Lebanon Center...
...pressure in Ottawa. They had watched 12,000,000 Canadians having their greatest day since the King & Queen visited in 1939; had heard the sturdily sesquipedalian Prime Minister of England wow the House of Commons with his oak-hearted phrases, with a tactful tribute (in French) to the loyal French-Canadians; they had listened as he recalled the 1940 prophecy of French generals, that "in three weeks England will have her neck rung like a chicken," had roared with delight as he growled: "Some chicken! . . . Some neck!" Now the newsmen glumly dined, glumly conversed. This was the heel...
Manila is mainly inhabited, not by Americans, but by Filipinos. Loyal as the Filipinos have been, their loyalty could not be expected to improve if they were bombed to a cinder while under grossly inadequate U.S. protection. But if the Japs bombed the city after the Americans retired, the Filipinos would well know who was their enemy...
...done what he could about it. He had promoted those who seemed loyal. He had sidetracked those who seemed especially treacherous. He had made the Army as big and strong as any generals could have wished. He had given the Army as much opportunity for fighting and glory as any Army ever had. But he had often demanded that the fighting be according to his, rather than the Army's strategy. This had led to several open breaks between Adolf Hitler and the Army High Command. Adolf Hitler was protected by the presence of his Gestapo and Elite Guardsmen...