Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Would it not be wiser for the nation's students to announce their sentiment on the embargo question? The League states that "when crises arise that clearly threaten our national independence by forcing us into the European conflict, we want to allow the members of the League to vote on a definite stand." Has not the crisis arisen? Is not the embargo issue proclaimed to be the "guarantee of neutrality," the "opening wedge to war?" Let the committee take a stand on this crisis, on the means of maintaining neutrality. Those who honestly seek neutrality will be more likely...
...were all the Senate's elders, that: 1) if the President is to win, he should do it in 30 days, for a dragged-out fight makes embargo-repeal unlikely unless such potential horrors as the bombing of Westminster Abbey or the destruction of Paris swing U. S. sentiment; 2) while delaying tactics probably mean victory for the Isolationists, the U. S. public will stand for no filibuster; 3) he must join with his fellow-Republicans in holding down Bob La Follette, who is bent on stealing the show for the Progressives. Well he knew, too, that the Administration...
...Greene undoubtedly has a very great sympathy for Great Britain. Perhaps he has allowed his sentiment to point the direction of his arguments. But he must not permit himself to be stampeded into a jingoistic position. Reality and patriotism justify America's entrance only in the case of inconceivable eventualities...
...America today also hates the German state with a hatred terrible to behold. For her there is no problem of war guilt, no question of allegiance, no division of sentiment. And she holds a certain love for her jolly. British cousins, and her French buddiea. She hopes that they will win. She hopes so very much...
...chances? American public opinion is now much healthier than it was twenty-five years ago. In spite of the crystallized sentiment against the Nazis, it is intent upon viewing all events through polarized glasses. It listens to newscasts with a silent admonition to discriminate in its belief. It reads of atrocities with a conscious effort not to get excited. It maintains a forced detachment from the affair...