Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flight of U.S. Army bombers landed last week in Trinidad to take up station there. From Brooklyn an Army transport laden with infantry and coast artillery sailed for the same destination. The two events, as intrinsically insignificant as the appearance of the first robin in the spring, were nonetheless informative. They did not mean that now or even soon the U. S. would have a chain of well defended bases in the Atlantic and Caribbean. But they did mean that action was getting under way, and they implied that of all the chain of southern defense sites-not only those...
Latin America was threatened by Germany, as it always is when the U. S. does something Germany dislikes. Nonetheless, Latin America was enthusiastic over passage of the bill. Cuba and Costa Rica sent congratulations to the U. S. Congress. In Panama and Nicaragua newspapers praised the Act. In Montevideo El Dia called it a triumph for Britain's cause. In Chile satisfaction was mixed with concern over the threat to Chile's long coast line, if the U. S. should go to war with Japan. Argentine newspapers were enthusiastic, but most of them forgot their enthusiasm when they...
...Niebuhr was a social reformer before he was a theologian and until two years ago was a member of the Socialist Party. He stands as far left economically as he now is far right theologically, but nonetheless presents a balanced if pointed view of society: "The anti-aristocratic emphasis of the Bible has been interpreted ... by certain types of sectarian Christianity and by modern secular radicalism in too simple politico-moral terms...
...distinguished an assembly as Malvern, which was convened by the Archbishop of York and drew 23 bishops, the C. L. I. D.'s meeting was nonetheless an earnest and effective one. Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, a C. L. I. D. member, could not come; with 20 other Bishops he was in Chicago, to consecrate the Rev. Wallace Edmonds Conkling as Chicago's seventh Episcopal bishop.* But four bishops and a raft of other prominent churchmen were there. In two days, some 450 delegates resolved that: "We subscribe to the Malvern Resolutions in spirit, also in letter...
...does to men's nerves. Interest is heightened by the fact that the men are Germans and the enemy are English--an aspect of the war of nerves little talked of now. If some of the reactions seem a little stock and some of the psychology a little doubtful, nonetheless a spirit of tension is preserved throughout...