Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today we mark the anniversary of the death of the man whose humanity was the greatest moral inspiration to the peoples and statesmen of the world. When men in these days attempt to solve the problems, within or between nations, that have risen out of the past war, they are judged by the standards Franklin Delano Roosevelt set for himself and his associates. He was the proof in our time that noble ideals need not be ground under in the grim, practical struggle for life...
...Rationing. But Butch LaGuardia, as well as UNRRA, skipped gingerly over the point which retiring UNRRA Director Herbert Lehman had insisted was not only a moral obligation of the U.S. but one sure way to prevent world famine: reinstate U.S. food rationing. LaGuardia was on safe ground; both President Truman and ex-President Hoover, now touring Europe investigating food shortages, were against going back to rationing...
...Another question: 'Are your books meant to be satirical?' No. Satire is a matter of period. It flourishes in a stable society and presupposes homogeneous moral standards-the early Roman Empire and 18th-Century Europe. ... It -is aimed at inconsistency and hypocrisy. It exposes polite cruelty and folly by exaggerating them. It seeks to produce shame. All this has no place in the century of the Common Man where vice no longer pays lip service to virtue. The artist's only service to the disintegrated society of today is to create little . . . systems of order...
...Pope cries, 'Give me leaders!' he means lay as well as clerical. But lay leaders are not to be looked for in a regimented society where every Catholic association is ruled over by a priest. . . . Without these monitors, we might learn to use our own mental and moral muscles...
Next day News Editorial Writer Reuben Maury twisted out a strange moral to this strange report.* The U.S. had to cut down on beer to send grains to Europe: "We suspect a prohibition angle to all this." Maybe, he continued, it would do Europe good to starve. Said the News...