Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain emerged from the 1938 Munich Conference, having ceded a slice of Czechoslovakia to Hitler, and made his slogan "peace in our time" synonymous with disastrous appeasement. Chamberlain's policy was largely a reflection of the popular pacifist sentiment in prewar Britain. Only a hopeless alarmist would suggest that such calamitous history might be repeating itself today. But Western military experts and policymakers are undeniably concerned by an increasing reluctance by Europe's man-in-the-street to accept the necessity of self-defense...
...European allies are already afraid that the U.S., in the name of antiCommunism, may forge closer relations with the apartheid regime. That might lead the Pretoria government to continue stalling on independence for Namibia, slow any liberalization of apartheid laws hi South Africa and stir substantial anti-U.S. sentiment throughout black Africa. Haig's aides insist that no policy has been set and that the Secretary fully understands that the issue is too complex to be seen in simple East-West terms. Says one: "This Administration will surprise you on the Third World...
Councilor David Wylie urged the city's civil defense department to end its evacuation planning and instead mobilize public sentiment against nuclear weapons. "The only way you can help is to tell the citizens that the only way out is disarmament," he told Chester Hallice, the city's director of civil defense...
...President was elated. "Two to one?" he asked incredulously at a White House staff meeting last week. "Really? That's great!" His aides had just brought him the results of the first poll of national sentiment since he disclosed his dramatic plan to slash federal spending and taxes. Actually, the Washington Post-ABC News poll found that the margin of public approval for his economic recovery program was by more than 3 to 1; 2 to 1 was the ratio by which Americans expect Reagan's shrinking of Government to bring inflation down quickly. That particular optimism...
Yoon said that when the South House Committee voted to nominate representatives for the CRR, she favored holding a House-wide referendum instead. "It's hard to judge the sentiment of the House with just the House Committee," she said...