Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regret to find that in its Dec. 31 issue TIME has fallen into the somewhat common error of referring to Montezuma as "Aztec Emperor of Mexico." Montezuma II was not an "emperor" and did not rule over an "empire. . . ." Montezuma was only one of the two chiefs of Tenochtitlan, the ancient Mexico City. Both these chiefs had but limited powers. . . . The "Aztec Empire" was only a loose confederation of nations tributary to Tenochtitlan but not integrated into a single, or even several large, governmental systems...
...left to Lord Keynes, who had been the chief British negotiator, to answer critics on both sides of the water. His frank, factual speech made a deep impression. He said that he would regret all his life that the loan was not interest-free, but that America's "immeasurably remote public opinion" made this impossible. Even so, he emphasized the point that no comparable credit had ever before been extended in peacetime. The U.S. conditions, after all, were aimed "at the restoration of multilateral trade, which is a system upon which British commerce essentially depends." Lord Beaverbrook had argued...
...This policy of France may temporarily lead the two very great powers, on occasions when they meet each other, to agree at least to keep France at a distance. We regret these contretemps for them, for us, and for the world. But we know that our equilibrium is identified with the equilibrium of peace, and we are fully decided not to abandon it, in the certainty that, after various oscillations, our attitude will finally determine the equilibrium of the needle for the good...
...followed the pattern of many previous attacks: Hurley had been more interested in giving supplies to Chiang to fight the Communists than he was in bringing Chiang and the Communists to unity; he had committed the U.S. to armed intervention. De Lacy's conclusion: the U.S. should express regret to China that she was a house divided and withdraw its forces...
...greatly concerned about Java. I follow the fate of the innumerable children, women and men . . . who are in danger of their lives and still not liberated from the threat of the confused masses. I deeply regret the sorrows that will inevitably have been inflicted upon the population of Java before order and tranquility have been restored...