Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oliver Franks, Britain's keen, contemplative Ambassador to the U.S., is first of all a professor of moral philosophy, secondly a diplomat. He did such a good job of prodding Western Europe into uniting under the Marshall Plan that Britain allowed him only a short tour as provost of Oxford's Queen's College before drafting him for Washington duty last...
...pronouncing sentence, Federal District Judge William C. Mathes declared grimly: "His life, if spared, would not be worth living. The only worthwhile use for the life of a traitor is to serve as an example to those of weak moral fiber who might hereafter be tempted to commit treason against the U.S." Unless a higher court reverses the verdict or the President intervenes, he will die in the San Quentin gas chamber...
Western reconciliation with Franco would be a serious blow to the West's moral position. Red propaganda would offer it as proof that Western democracy is fascism in disguise. These political liabilities of friendship with Franco seem to outweigh the advantage of advance agreement on bases...
...modest way, Raphael Demos is an American success story. A Greek immigrant who worked his way as a janitor to his Harvard Ph.D., Demos now holds Harvard's imposing Alford professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity (one predecessor: Josiah Royce). But in the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Demos has an un-American doctrine to advocate: it is high time, he thinks, that educators paid some attention to failure stories...
...conception of Zion far above the costive strivings of Israeli nationalism. Said he: "We are a small country, but a big people. We must not be satisfied with just having a country of our own. We must prove that we still possess the force that once gave the world moral law and social laws. Our relations with other peoples must be pervaded by the spirit of peace and by the spirit of the Jewish nation which, after a small pause of 2,000 years, has come home...