Word: selfishnesses
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...Hitler whose intentions towards France are so evident he has caused Britain to drop her isolation ... & Mussolini who for ten years was making trouble for France. . . . Your aim is not patriotism as you say; that is merely the snare to catch the foolish & to set yourselves up in the selfish & feudal powers & privileges of your party. It is your party that counts, not France, nor its peasants & petit bourgeois. . . . And you would bring war (not of defense, which is right & just) misery & distress, as though we have not suffered enough with our four invasions between 1814 and 1914. . . . Vive...
...belligerent nations of any and all American products calculated to facilitate the prosecution of a war in quantities over and above our normal exports of them in time of peace. . . . "Peace is jeopardized by the few and not by the many. Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power. ... If face it we must, then the United States and the rest of the Americas can play but one role: "Through a well-ordered neutrality to do naught to encourage the contest, through adequate defense to save ourselves from embroilment and attack, and through example and all legitimate encouragement...
...Reasons that Americans will have for being thankful on Thanksgiving Day, 1935 (according to Presidential proclamation ): 1) "More and more of our people understand and seek the greater good of the greater number." 2) "Selfish purpose of personal gain at, our neighbor's loss, less and less asserts itself." 3) "Peace at home is strengthened by a growing willingness to common counsel." 4) "Our peace with other nations continues through recognition of our own peaceful purpose...
...only living Russian Nobel Prizewinner in the sciences, grouchy, bearded old Dr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, who can bark with impunity that he does not like a government of "illiterate Communists." Lately another example of Russian scientist-coddling has seemed to certain Britons like the embrace of a selfish bear. But the British can take their science more calmly than the Russians, as they proved last week by a gentlemanly gesture to the man in the bear...
...know all this," retort the bored pragmatists. "England is being selfish, naturally enough, and looking after her own interests, but who cares? Incidentally, and by the rarest of good fortune, she is also serving a noble cause. Ethiopia as a member of the League is entitled to protection. And Mussolini as the defier of international decency, is entitled to a good taking down...