Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: It has occurred to me that President Roosevelt should have advanced Thanksgiving Day to his birthday, January 30. The nation could then really give proper thanks for this glorious thing that has happened...
After all this drumbeating, Ham turned pacifistic. Last spring he proposed a National Committee to Keep America Out of Foreign Wars "to counteract the inspired propaganda which has created mass war hysteria throughout the Nation by inflaming the fears and passions of our people." In April, on a nationwide radio hookup, he begged "an end to all this war talk." In May his committee was offering $100 prizes for essays on "Why America Should Keep Out of Foreign Wars," and Congressmen were beginning to refer to their alarmed colleague as a "Leader of the Ostrich Bloc...
...hours before news of the German-Russian Anti-Aggression Pact fell like a bomb on Europe's capitals. Then he said suavely what nationalistic Hungarians wanted to hear: "An independent and strong Hungary is an indispensable factor in the political balance of Central Europe. . . . This thousand-year-old nation has preferred, above all, in every age and under all circumstances, to be reliable and to keep its national honor. Neither in Germany nor Italy was anything asked or demanded or begged from the Hungarian Government. . . . Personally, I was so pleased in both countries that only...
...three years ago a smart, dapper, young-looking man named Cortlandt Jackson Langley called on the dean of Columbia University's Teachers College, ambitious, 46-year-old William Fletcher Russell. He found Dean Russell brooding on the fact that his college, long the nation's No. 1 teacher-training institution, had in businessmen's eyes become "The Big Red University...
Teachers College and Business should get together, do Education and the nation a service by helping businessmen and educators to understand each other. Dean Russell thought likewise. Last week the idea produced a spectacular meeting...