Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America is a part of the universe. This fact must be recognized at the outset in any competent analysis of the situation. In a universe governed by rules of intercontinental morality, America will be at peace; in a universe ravaged by ruthless aggressors, no home, no family, no child will be safe. This stand must be fearlessly taken...
...supremacy, and with it was critically injured a well-meaning, well-led little nation which supposedly had the protection of its democratic neighbors. America only, so far silent on the European situation, is left as a democratic force which has not yet capitulated to the Napoleonic demands of a ruthless dictator...
...Tallarin ("The Noodle"), surrendered to Governor Elpidio Perdomama of Morelos. Taken before military authorities at Mexico City, "The Noodle" explained that the assaults attributed to him over four States for a number of years were all untrue, claimed that he started robbing only as a defiant gesture against a ruthless politician who tried to wring campaign contributions out of him. Having thus implied that Mexico's "New Deal" suited his political tastes, Bandit Rodríguez promised to reform, was promptly set free by President Lázaro Cárdenas' authorization...
...insistence she became first secretary of the Third International. But intrigues, double-dealing - principally by Zinoviev - and unscrupulous measures taken to discredit opponents soon disillusioned her. No hero-worshiper, she considers Lenin chiefly responsible for the weaknesses of the modern revolutionary movement, says she often remonstrated with him about ruthless Bolshevik tactics. Closing one eye, he would stare at her "with an expression which was more sad than sardonic" and ask, "Comrade Angelica, what use can life make of you?" like a father addressing a naive child...
...Bombs. At a Washington press conference Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles read a Roosevelt-approved moral indignation statement condemning "ruthless bombing of unfortified localities" as "barbarous." Significantly added was the statement that the U. S. still adhered to a non-intervention policy. Night before, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, speaking in Nashville, declared that the U. S. was willing to join in a conference at The Hague for "humanizing" war practices. To an English invitation to America to join in the bombings investigating committee, the U. S. seemed likely to decline, however...