Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Is it not strange that the same people who were so recently giving their sons and moral support to a bloody war so we might have peace, have now begun to cry about their homestead rights when their land is needed to house the symbol of peace? JOHN T. CROWE, M.D. St. Louis
...faith in a United Nations: "I do not share the melancholy pessimism heard in some quarters." Some phases of the London record, of course, were disappointing: "I confess that in this first meeting of the United Nations I missed the uplifting and sustaining zeal for a great, crusading, moral cause which seemed to imbue the earlier Charter sessions at San Francisco." He had sensed "a tendency to relapse into power politics ... to use the United Nations as a self-serving tribune rather than as a tribunal...
...United States just as vigorously sustains its own purposes and its ideals as Russia does; we abandon the miserable fiction, often encouraged by our own fellow travelers, that we somehow jeopardize the peace if our candor is as firm as Russia's always is; we assume a moral leadership which we have too frequently allowed to lapse...
Unless the U.S. suicidally weakens her own strength, turns isolationist, falls prey to internal disintegration, or, worst of all, gets confused and cynical about her own moral and political principles, a major war is unlikely in the next fifteen years. Beyond that observers could not see so clearly. But as W. Averell Harriman, retiring U.S. Ambassador to Russia, said this week: "There will be no war if we, as a country, remain strong, physically and spiritually...
...century old book of rules were regulations making chapel compulsory, and requiring men to attend services each morning before classes. Conspicuous by their absence, however, were rules concerning women guests, but every person, before admission to the classes or schools, had to "exhibit proper testimonials of his moral character...