Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington can give its Cuban policy two different forms. It can reverse the traditional American Carribean diplomacy by treating the Platt Amendment as a dead letter, eschewing intervention, and extending immediate recognition and moral support to the present regime; or it can land troops in Cuba, restore order, and see that a stable representative government is established. The adoption of either of these courses would calm the chaotic situation now existing and make some sort of recovery possible for the unhappy island. Instead of doing this Secretary Hull has resurrected the thoroughly discredited Stimson Doctrine, which gained for its originator...
...Brave New World." For it is not hard to guess what type of picture the teachers will choose for their tender-minded young charges: it is almost certain to be "educational" and "uplifting," and its capacity to amuse is likely to run in indirect ratio to its capacity for moral elevation. The students will go to the selected shows because they are forced to, and they will take part in the classroom discussions as perfunctorily as they swallow the rest of the dubious instruction daily forced down their unwilling throats, but when left to themselves they are sure to attend...
...Hollywood greensickness. But the hope is quixotic; the educators' idea will probably have two very different outcomes. First, vast sums will be squandered on equipment which will enable the schools to show their own pictures. Second, a certain number of children are bound to be converted by the moral maunderings of their instructors into a slightly above normal crop of prudes and prigs...
...Puritanical conscience. There are Jonas Dodge, Master, Zeke Nyas, Indian Quartermaster, and a dozen others. Mr. LaFarge has portayed all these swiftly and surely. But towering above them all is Jeremiah Disney, nephew of the mate, son of the Chog's Cove pastor. The story of Jeremiah Disney's moral disintegration, the picture of his unbalanced mind with its varnish of biblical Puritanism, is, in this reviewer's opinion, Mr. LaFarge's finest piece of work. It is marred only by a melodramatic and unnecessary close...
...Inasmuch as the moral and spiritual forces of America have been facing a real crisis...