Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China's whole national fabric, corroded by the Japanese attrition, has in the past seven months undergone terrible moral and material shocks. She has found that the Allies, instead of alleviating her position, have increased her immediate difficulties tenfold. She is bewildered by the crushing defeats America and Britain have suffered. Her Burma Road-her so-called lifeline-has been cut. Half the army she sent to Burma may never return. Japan has launched a new attack, designed to conquer her remaining railway lines and perhaps eventually capture Kunming and deliver a death blow...
...almost certain answer is that he is the product of an academic system in which the study of moral wisdom has been abandoned. It turns out reformers without moral restraint, humanitarians without human respect, philanthropists without philosophy, and enthusiasts without religion...
...deeply sympathetic with the efforts of the Negro press to improve the lot of the Negro. Nothing so impairs the moral position of America in the present war as our treatment of the Negro population, and every sincere effort that seeks to ameliorate the present status of the Negroes should be encouraged. The conclusions here stated are, I take it, axiomatic to all loyal and understanding Americans...
...week-up 2? to cover the cost difference between tanker transportation before Pearl Harbor and rail transportation now. It was a real setback for price control, but it was not the kind of setback that people would get excited over. The average citizen found it hard to see any moral reason why the taxpayer should be soaked for a subsidy of up to $100,000,000 to make it cheaper for motorists to buy gasoline the Government would much rather they would not buy. For the time being, fuel oil prices were kept unchanged...
...There is no other way but saying to them: 'You must go,' and if British rule ends, that moral act will save Britain and America. If they choose to remain here, they should do so as friends, not proprietors, of India. American and British soldiers may remain here, if at all, by virtue of a compact with free India...