Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mercurio also quoted President Ramirez: "The great majority of Argentines are in favor of a democratic victory, but that does not mean that they are rupturists [i.e., in favor of breaking with Germany]. The sentiment of Argentina is Catholic. Catholic propaganda is of peace and love toward nations. . . . The present policy [neutrality] will be maintained until external circumstances indicate convenience to modify...
Gurgled a Tommy: "You'd think sentiment like that would turn your stomach. But blimey, it's marvelous." Beamed the Daily Mail: "Riotously amusing." Even the thunderous Times felt that it offered "valuable lessons to the English music hall." Overnight Irving Berlin's This Is The Army was a London smash...
...Effect. Led by the nation's greatest newspaper, La Prensa, which no Argentine Government has dared to ban, the press gradually found its voice and published the majority demands. Sentiment against the Government snowballed. By midweek the "state of siege" decree muzzling the press had weakened so far that newspapers could print a Pan American declaration signed by 150 prominent Argentines. Next day the Government dismissed all public officials who had signed...
...Single War Department? "Senior officers of both the Army and Navy are deeply impressed with the need for unity of the services. . . . There is a surprising amount of sentiment among these men for a single Department of War, with autonomous land, sea and air services coordinated at the top by a joint staff, with each branch free to pursue its own personnel and materiel policies...
With each retreat, also, the poison of defeat will spread. Especially vulnerable will be the Balkans, wrhere the heavy thud of approaching Russian sapogi (boots) might well set off explosive anti-German sentiment. The German command knows well the dangers implicit in these airline distances from the Eastern front: to the Ploesti oil fields, 530 miles; to the old Polish frontier, 95 miles; to Germany proper, 475 miles...