Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traditional American optimism and traditional American isolationist sentiment have both gone to pot. The American people are gloomy about their post-war future -but they want the U.S. to take larger part in world affairs after the war is over...
World Affairs. All their gloom is apparently not caused by fear that the U.S. is being dragged into war. Interventionist sentiment, for backing England until Hitler is beaten, has increased since October from 51.4% to 54%. Today there are big majorities for using the Navy, the Air Force and even the Army to back up U.S. foreign policy, if necessary...
...fatal slip into sentiment the Senior Controller of Programs of the British Broadcasting Corp. was fired last week. The Senior Controller, Basil Edward Nicolls, did not himself make the slip; it was made by Christopher Stone, a brother-in-law of Novelist Compton Mackenzie. It consisted in wishing the King of Italy a happy birthday by radio and adding: "I don't think any of us wish him anything but good, poor soul...
...Columnist Raymond Clapper, a careful reporter with good sources, described the expected manifesto as "directed against the Roosevelt-Churchill Atlantic Charter. . . . [The U.S.] would be described as remote from, and completely alien to, the European problem. Obviously this would be aimed at providing ammunition for non-interventionist and isolationist sentiment...
...intelligence of ourselves and our common man to work out a decent destiny through reason. Hence I would favor a negotiated peace in which were came to grips with the fundamental problems that are racking the world, in which we placed our strength behind rationalism rather than moral sentiment...