Word: neglectment
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Though inviting Joseph Stalin to the recent Roosevelt-Churchill conference Africa and not inviting Chaing-KaiShek may have sound military and political motives, that neglect of China is merely the latest example of the Anglo American attitude toward helping our allies in the Far East, according to Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter, of the Harvard Bureau of International Research...
...destruction of the tradition of the liberal arts at this crisis in our history ... would be a crime comparable, in my opinion, with the burning of the books by the Nazis. . . . Burn your books-or, what amounts to the same thing, neglect your books-and you will lose freedom as surely as if you were to invite Hitler and his henchmen to rule over...
...neglect or else refuse...
Perhaps the U.S. felt impelled to snub China because the Russians, not at war with Japan, did not want to take part in discussions on the Far East. But probably most of the trouble was a vast and inexcusable neglect. In China, it used to be said of General Hsiung: "He can ride with the whirlwind and direct the storm." With Washington's chill and ominous calm, he could last week ride no longer...
Thanks to conscientious Dr. John C. Evans, superintendent, the institution is clean. But thanks to Oregon's legislature and public neglect, the State spends scarcely more than half as much money per month per patient as neighboring California, leaves its institution's superintendent to cope as best he may with too many patients, too small a staff. At a cost of 47 deaths, Oregon may learn to take better care of her insane...