Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cadaverous Ambassador, Lord Halifax, one hand cupped to his good ear. Over & over again, Texan Tom Connally, who had snorted interventionist fire in the Senate before the war, now breathed peace. Said he: "Peace can be preserved. . . . We leagued our armed might for war. Now let us league our moral and material might for peace...
...fear more than the Colossus. He is, after all, our Colossus. Besides, if he becomes predatory, as he used to be, we now have the world organization to appeal to. Not that it will do much good-the Colossus has his veto. But there is the Assembly. And moral suasion. And in our little spats with each other, there is the Court...
...basic conception of Dumbarton Oaks was that a few great powers would wield overwhelming military might to repress violence. The nations represented at San Francisco found that conception unacceptable. A few feared that the Great Powers would in fact agree upon a use of force which unguided by moral principles would be oppressive and unjust. Many more feared that the five Great Powers would be unable to agree among themselves and that the Security Council would be impotent as an organ for action. This fear was enhanced by the obvious difficulty which the Great Powers experienced in arriving at agreement...
...fought a spirited rearguard action against criticisms of his unco-soldierly remarks. To Patton's public "Goddamits," Los Angeles' Rev. Don Householder had cried: "Never in our country's history has there been such a profanation. . . . We trust that the General ... will hereafter remember his moral obligation to the youth of America." After the General spoke of the next war before a Sunday School class in San Gabriel, Calif., Stars & Stripes howled: "Please, General . . . just sort of hold your tongue at least until after that San Francisco conference." The General finally grumbled to a Manhattan reporter...
...moviemakers' problems are moral. When James Cagney portrayed an honest, crusading employe of a city department of weights & measures (in Great Guy), gas-station owners and retail grocers cried that it reflected on their honesty...