Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having heard the testimony on both sides can doubt that if there is not a legal obligation on the part of the Church, there is a high moral obligation. ... It is true that repudiation of debts, and bankruptcy, in this day, is looked upon with favor by individuals, corporations, and even Governments, but for such repudiation, in a case of this kind, to come from men preaching the Religion of God, is not understandable. The position held by the Church in the minds and hearts of men would be greatly shaken, no matter which way this case may be decided...
...result of this interest he established a foundation on his seventieth birthday in 1929, endowing it with $1,100,000, the income and capital of which was to be used without restriction "to enlarge the realms of human knowledge, to promote the general, moral, mental, and physical improvement of society so that the sum total of human welfare and wisdom may be increased and the cause of better understanding among all mankind promoted...
...Hull and Mr. lucks have been displaying an almost childlike faith in the goodness of human nature. How any businessman can be expected to pass by fat profits and refuse to sell a commodity not at all forbidden by the neutrality legislation is hard to understand. This so-called "moral pressure" is typical of the present administration's tendency to use force which it has not the conviction to ask-Congress to legalize...
Equally inane is the suggestion that Congress in its next session limit the amount of our exports to a peacetime average. This meets every moral requirement, of course, but will do little to keep America out of war. If the war spreads to Europe and blockades are established, there is as much risk in shipping a barrel of oil or a bale of cotton as there would be in a whole shipload of the commodities. This country wants a program of strict and workable neutrality in which all exports whatsoever to a country at war shall be forbidden...
...Mussolini is reaching out with his mailed fist to drag us back into a more primitive age when conquest was respectable and did not offend the moral and legal code of international society as it does today...