Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalists were in no mood to heed Epstein's protests. They were hard at work on their grand design to oust non-Europeans from any participation in South Africa's government (TIME, Oct. 25). The latest target of their campaign was the Natives' Representative Council, which had been set up in 1936 to assist Parliament in making laws affecting Negroes. Its six government-appointed white members and 16 Negroes (twelve of them elected) formed a purely advisory body. "The N.R.C.," one of its members once said, "is like a toy telephone...
Light from Russia. Foreigners who keep track of the claims, and the prodigal expenditure of newspaper space on them, are inclined to doubt that they are signs of nationalism. These days Communism is in an internationalist mood and the claims of the Russian propagandists are widely pushed abroad. The purpose may be to convince prospective foreign proselytes that Russia, through the years, has been a source of scientific light and not (as was generally the case) a dismal swamp of scientific darkness. From this premise it is easy to argue that the U.S.S.R. is still a source of scientific light...
...suddenly a mood of benevolence came over him. Examinations were coming along, for Student Council members as well as for other people... and that gave him the ideas of quoting from William James on the subject of examinations...
After the minute steak and the strawberry sundae, Harry Truman got up to say a few words. He was in a mellow and reminiscent mood. He joked about his old Army days with Eddie, recalling how as Canteen managers they had reaped profits for their artillery battery fund by selling $3 sweaters for $6. A handful of scribbling reporters dropped their pencils and took it easy. They picked them up when Harry Truman abruptly left Eddie and the Army, and began to talk about the worries of the world...
Hitler at Sea. Through the battle of the Atlantic, the invasion of Norway, the preparations for the invasion of Britain, this mood persisted. Hitler told Raeder: "On land I am a hero, but at sea I am a coward." He consequently gave the admirals a freedom of action that the generals never had. Author Martienssen (a South African, who is assistant foreign editor of the Economist) believes that Raeder made the most of it, used his small forces effectively, and was individually superior to the run of German officers...