Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midwinter a variation of the letter craze which swept the nation...
...Armed assistance to a member nation attacked by an aggressor would be automatic...
...military force against any signatory, even by a faction within the nation itself, would bring immediate assistance from other signatories...
Love that Dirt. One thing wrong with Americans, in Lewis' view, is that most of them fail to realize what a magnificent future they are building. Tied to petty, European standards of measurement, Americans keep thinking that they are a great nation, instead of "an advance copy" of the "rootless Elysium" that is to come. They worry because their cities are "irresponsible, dirty, corrupt," when in Lewis' opinion such conditions are "like nature," and therefore highly admirable. Americans even suspect their gregarious habits and glad-handedness, when, as Lewis sees it, they should be reveling in their "beautiful...
...This nation's Chief Executive visited