Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still a member of the First Baptist Church of Grandview. Mo., although he says he has never been "a very active churchgoer." The Christian Century called him "a religious man." For a while he skipped around on the fringes of Dr. Frank Buchman's Moral Re-Armament movement...
...Even in the earliest days of the Republic," he said, "the United States wielded a moral force in excess of its military power." Now Candidate Dewey called a roll of European problems where the U.S. does not seem to be wielding a great moral force...
...pessimistic, publicity-wise anthropologist, who has long reported that men are reverting to apes, plumped for a woman President of the U.S., claimed that women "could hardly have made a worse mess" of world affairs than that made by men. He declared that women's "capacity for moral self-deception is smaller than that of males . . . they see things black or white. . . ." He also hoped for a woman President, because "we should then have a first gentleman of the land, and some of us would rather be that than President...
Said the Century: "We regard this issue as the one which undercuts all political issues, because it concerns the moral health of the nation. . . . The spirit of cynicism is undermining the moral foundations of our democracy. And we have suggested that any searching diagnosis of the numerous sources from which this poisonous infection has spread would have to include the success of a policy of dissimulation by which one man has kept himself at the head of our government for twelve years. From the very beginning Mr. Roosevelt has used deception as a major political strategem, until today...
Three of the world's leading churchmen discussed one of the world's great moral questions last week, came to conclusions which, while different, were far from violently so. The question: how should the aggressor nations be treated in defeat...