Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...province that voted No, by an almost solid block of votes from its French-Canadian majority. The French Canadians had thus turned the rest of Canada against them. Loud-mouthed Maurice Duplessis, onetime Fascist follower, now opposition leader of the Quebec Legislature, tried to capitalize on the anti-conscription sentiment by storming: "That promise of the Government is not one that can be annulled by a majority...
...sentiment of France's Ecole navale has long tended to be antidemocratic, and that sentiment was underscored in blood two years ago when the British attacked the French Fleet at Oran. But if most Vichy naval officers would probably fight Britain with gusto, French seamen are generally pro-British...
...recent editorials in the Crimson have dealt in a very fair way with the relation of pacifists to the country's war effort. At a time when sentiment against minorities is growing in intensity, (viz. against the Jews, Japanese aliens, etc.) it is especially heartening to hear the voice of undergraduate Harvard supporting the right to individual opinion and allegiance to personal conscience and conviction...
...There was also time for sentiment, hitherto the stumbling block of U.S. radio propaganda. Army Hour managed it without slopping over. Its brief drama of a World War I veteran seeing his son off to World War II was just about right. Said he: "If we'd finished the job when we were there, you wouldn't be going now." Said the son: "You had your April the sixth; we've got our December the seventh. . . . This time we're going to fix it so this thing can't ever happen again...
Although the Brown bill has considerable sentiment behind it, it has to run a gantlet of committees and perhaps face Administration opposition. Secretary Morgenthau has said he does not want to resort to compulsory savings until he has had time to see whether non-compulsory (sale of defense bonds) will supply the Government's needs. But he may come around. Defense-bond sales were $1,075,000,000 in January, $711,000,000 in February, dropped to a monthly rate of $580,000,000 in the first 23 days of March...