Word: sentimentalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poll of isolationist sentiment among practicing Catholics has yet been made. That it would run as high as Catholic clergymen's response to their poll is unlikely. Lay Catholics include a strong group of Roosevelt supporters; they also read the secular press, which last week was 69% interventionist. Remembered last week was the discrepancy between the Catholic press and Catholics in the Spanish Civil War. After two years of nearly total pro-Franco sentiment in the Catholic press, a Gallup poll showed that one-third of U.S. Catholics were neutral, 43% were pro-Loyalist, less than 25% pro-Franco...
...Pacific and close cooperation with the Nazis. Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo even has a German wife. However, the new cabinet has not committed itself to a definite program but will probably watch developments in Eastern Russia very carefully. The last vestige of any friends-with-the-U.S. sentiment has disappeared with Konoye, the brake is off, and the road has been cleared for a drive on Vladivostok, Singapore, or the Dutch East Indies. The streamlined Tojo cabinet is designed to eliminate those precious moments of discussion between the soldiery and the government which always prevent immediate action when...
This week begins a crisis in the affairs of the U.S.-an attempt to modify the Neutrality Act in Congress, coinciding with popular fears that Russia may fall. The chart below, based on the newspaper analysis of James S. Twohey Associates, tells graphically how similar crises have affected press sentiment in recent months...
...Twohey figures tell the story of typical editorial reactions. The events which sent interventionist sentiment up, sent isolationist sentiment down and vice versa. Whenever the President took a firm stand or a firm step, sentiment for intervention and more aid to Britain rose sharply. Whenever there was talk of the closeness of war or of other unpleasant things such as low Army morale, isolationist sentiment rose...
Interventionist sentiment reached a record high (84%) in September after the Navy was ordered to shoot. The important questions now are 1) whether debate over the dangers of arming merchant ships and modifying the Neutrality Act will set back interventionist sentiment as debate over the Lend-Lease bill did last February; 2) whether news from Russia will aggravate or offset the decline...