Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America today also hates the German state with a hatred terrible to behold. For her there is no problem of war guilt, no question of allegiance, no division of sentiment. And she holds a certain love for her jolly. British cousins, and her French buddiea. She hopes that they will win. She hopes so very much...
...frankly question," said Michigan's Republican Senator Vandenberg, "whether we can become an arsenal for one belligerent without being the target for the other. I doubt if it is possible to be half in and half out of this...
Upon Ambassadors Kennedy & Bullitt will weigh more & more heavily the task of accurately appraising and interpreting events in Europe-with always in their minds as in the minds of all U. S. citizens the mounting question: What do these events mean to the U. S.? What might the U. S. do in a world already war-torn and threatened with chaotic consequences...
This week, after only eleven days of fighting, it was a grave question whether Poland was not already crushed. Perhaps Marshal Smigly-Rydz was to blame, for having his generals resist too long; perhaps the speed and power of the German advance surpassed even German calculations; perhaps the weather made the difference, staying dry and leaving the roads passable for motorized advance; perhaps the German air-power exceeded all expectations, breaking Poland's wings before they left the ground, smashing defensive positions before they could be organized. Certainly all these factors combined to make half Poland a shambles...
Some papers, like the Nashville Tennesseean, went shouting out into the street at the sinking of the Athenia: "German frightfulness . . . again roams the seas. . . . This nation wants no war, but there is no question where its sentiments lie." Others, like the Baltimore Evening Sun, remained stiffly in the parlor: "Neutral, as a nation, we are. And neutral we must be. A nation cannot afford the luxury of living-room emotions...