Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...News says and has said many times that the blame for these things should not fall on the undergraduates. The students are just as fine, just as intelligent, and just as good moral Americans as ever, if not a great deal better than in years past. The incident of blame is first on the American system of living, big cities, fast automobiles, corrupt politics, cheap shows, and above all on that exceedingly intelligent law our fathers concoated Prohibition. The second incident is on Yale University on its too small Faculty, and on its unstable society...
...equally so for its bold experiments in popular self-government; these were first tried in the democratic religious sects and then carried out into wider areas of the State. Using this period as an example, the writer shows that democracy will never be a true success without a deep moral and religious background in the lives of the people who compose the democratic government...
...admonition should have been broadcast over European lines rather than over American. The Government of the United States has put plainly on record its disapproval of what is in reality an aggressive war on China by Japan. It has founded its objection to this aggressive proceeding on the moral force of the Kellogg-Briand Pact and on the Nine-Power Treaty of 1922. Dr. Lowell freely admits that any action which the United States may take or may join in with other Powers is based not on the Covenant of the League of Nations but on these two agreements...
...infinitely more polite to M. Tardieu than they had been to Comrade Litvinov. The German delegation, frankly skeptical, protested that this was a disarmament conference, and where was there any Disarmament in M. Tardieu's words? They called the French security plan "a beautiful fable lacking a moral." With fine Roman cynicism the Italian delegation whispered around a witticism to the effect that M. Tardieu, facing 57 armed states, had proposed to create a 58th. And that great liberal, cultured Viscount Cecil, said: "The French proposition starts at the wrong end. Let them first tell us what measures of Disarmament...
Important features of the American proposal are the limitation of tanks, the abolition of submarines and the abolition of poison gases. Unfortunately, no method of enforcing the abolition of these instruments is available, except by moral sanction. Events of the past months have not strengthened the world's faith in such paper phrases. It is impossible to believe that any nation would refrain from using such potent weapons in a major war, pledge or no pledge...