Word: self-respect
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...Teutonic nation be shouldered with full and sole responsibility for the war that tore Europe asunder. The time has come for sensible treatment of a situation that has caused as much unrest and anxiety as the war itself. Germany must be given an opportunity to regain her self-respect and full nationhood. If another world catastrophe is to be avoided, she must be accepted among her fellow states as an equal. Proud and idealistic the Teuton race will not suffer much longer the injustice that has been inflicted upon it by arrogant nations. Everywhere they clamor for peace but nowhere...
...either a peaceful revolution or a bloody one-for ten, 20 or 50 more years, until it has achieved its purpose." Even most Republicans would agree with the anonymous Observer that Roosevelt has political "it" and that he has given the U. S. hope, action and self-respect, that he "is not a political cardsharper . . . [but] follows the play rather than any system." Roosevelt likes to talk, says the Observer, has no sense of the passage of time. One of the periodic jobs of his secretaries is to break up Cabinet meetings when they have reached the story-telling stage...
...officers to Wilhelm's birthday while still others patrolled Berlin's streets denuding house fronts of the Imperial flag. Said a Nazi leader, with an eye to Nazi history books: "Hitler is the restorer of authority from above and discipline from below. He is the restorer of self-respect and hope, but no restorer of kings...
...what you want to once before you die?" This catapults the doomed tycoon on into marriage with the divorcee, into a brutal handling of a bloody strike, into his wife's affair with his son until, finally, full of "power and glory," peeled of self-respect, he dies by his own hand...
...recently deceased industrial rival, Hartland. At first, Reeves plans to diddle the Hartland heirs out of their shoe factory. Presently he changes his mind; it pleases him better to get himself appointed their guardian under a pseudonym, make them help him build up their plant. This adds to their self-respect and diminishes the conceit of Reeves's nephew. It does not do Reeves Shoe Co. any harm because the nephew falls in love with the Hartland girl (Bette Davis) and it looks as though the companies might merge about the time the two young people get married...