Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flynn vehemently denied all responsibility, declared: "The circular was not submitted to the publicity division of the National Committee for its approval prior to its issuance." Neither he nor Charles Michelson had known a thing about it, Mr. Flynn maintained. Said he: "I am chagrined to think that some reckless individual has done such a disservice to our great President and Party as to issue this stupid document...
Foreign Policy. Willkie favored aid to Great Britain and China, approved the destroyers deal (but condemned the way the deal was made by President Roosevelt), favored the acquisition of Pacific air bases, condemned reckless and incendiary statements in foreign affairs, executive secrecy in their conduct. He argued that a prosperous U. S. would have strengthened the democratic world, quoted the warning that Winston Churchill made in 1937: "The Washington Administration has waged so ruthless a war on private enterprise that the United States . . is leading the world back into depression. . . . Even the most enthusiastic New Dealer might ask himself whether...
Said Willkie: "The farmer, the worker, the investor and the businessman have been like four horses attached to the same evener, the reins in the hands of a reckless driver, and all horses plunging spasmodically in different directions...
...condemnation of Hitler. ... It is an irresponsible charge. . . . Hitler may well believe that he will find tougher opposition in an American defense program run by a man who has had firsthand business experience than in a defense program run by a man who lacks that experience. It is a reckless charge, because [it] is an attempt to arrogate patriotism for the Democratic Party...
Last month, when Germany unleashed her real air attack on Britain, she led with her chin in reckless massed raids of as many as 1,800 planes per day. Last week she showed that she had learned caution, punched craftily at Great Britain with not more than 1,000 planes in action each 24 hours, sent over in successive sections of 50 or 60 (two squadrons of 27, plus a few heavy Junkers 89 four-motored bombers...