Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While U.S. military authorities investigated the complaint, other U.S. officers and civilians continued their task of teaching Germans to like and respect democracy...
Brazil had shown its respect for free elections. Brazil could now expect that its fellow American republics would respect Brazil's elected choice...
...creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice...
...fault lies not with the top military command. The Chief of Staff conceived a sound program for giving the best soldier in the world the treatment demanded to preserve the American qualities that make him the best soldier. Its essence was to treat the soldier with respect as an individual...
After that, the corroboration of Joseph C. Grew, the pre-Pearl Harbor Ambassador to Tokyo, was an anticlimax: "[The Hull note] was in no respect an ultimatum.... I never said the Hull reply touched the button. I never understood how the board got that impression...