Word: lukewarm
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This unrest, it seemed clear from the tone of the press, was displayed chiefly by the well-to-do and the fairly well-to-do, those elements which have always been, at best, lukewarm supporters of Fascism. They are the elements which have been most loyal to King Vittorio Emanuele,who at the time of the Ethiopian crisis was supposed to have said: "If Italy wins, I will be Emperor of Ethiopia but if Italy loses, I will be King of Italy." He may have been thinking along the same lines last week. There were rumors that Crown Prince Umberto...
...King Farouk asked Sabry Pasha to form a coalition Cabinet, he had been worried by internal dissension. To begin with, the anti-British Wafdists accused him of pandering to London. The British, also displeased, said he was the King's pawn, and that the King was lukewarm on the war. Then when Italy invaded Egypt, extreme Wafdists accused him of forgetting his words of last August: "Egypt will declare war if her territory or her Army is the object of an attack." Never overly popular except with the King, Sabry Pasha by last week was the focus of some...
Putting in his oar, New York-born Laborite Ernest Thurtle shouted above the hubbub: "Has it escaped notice of the Prime Minister that many . . . who are pressing this question are rather lukewarm about prosecution...
...historic on a second count was that they represented the first real effort by the Roosevelt Administration to arrange the payment of a debt before the money was borrowed. Muley Doughton (as chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee) and Mississippi's Pat Harrison (Senate Finance Committee) sold lukewarm Franklin Roosevelt on this departure from New Deal practice, then wrote the President's ideas into "a bill to provide for the expenses of national preparedness. . . ." Sure to pass, the bill was no less sure to be a mere drop in the enormous bucket of Defense...
...Republican ticket, State Senator Robert Hendrickson, with the lukewarm backing of a Clean Government bloc, is running for Governor against bouncing, bumptious ex-Governor Harold Hoffman, one of the minor phenomena of Jersey politics. Reviled, threatened with impeachment, pronounced politically dead after his meddling with the Hauptmann case, bullocky Mr. Hoffman is friskier than ever. He counters the charge that he is a Hague Republican with the retort: "I like Hague as much as Haig & Haig. I take both of them when I want them but neither is my master." Most discouraging of all to Pastor Clee and the Clean...