Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British edition of the Gallup poll showed last week that 86% of the British approved of Winston Churchill as Prime Minister. In March 88% had approved, and the months between had seen damaging blows to his prestige-the Balkan campaign, the loss of Crete. As far as British popular sentiment went, the vote indicated that the Prime Minister's personal prestige would probably survive another defeat-provided it was not due to gross incompetence...
Arms for the Love of America, in bouncing 6/8 march time, sounds a bit like Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning, which ageless, wizened Composer Berlin wrote during World War I. Any Bonds Today? is a conventional dance tune whose sentiment is Buy a share of freedom. Neither song is likely to set isolationist feet a-tapping. For some reason, Mr. Berlin's popular and patriotic God Bless America has been ticketed as an interventionist song, and shouted down at America First rallies...
...last week Hoppy, who believes that "democracy might have to be willing to forgo itself to be able to save itself," was heartened by a recent change in Dartmouth undergraduate sentiment. A plurality of the senior class had plumped for immediate declaration of war on Germany. This week, as he dismissed 499 graduates at Dartmouth's 172nd commencement, he declared...
...galleries, however, were open to spectators at sof a head. The real sentiment of the convention became apparent later. The Federation's leaders, including Mrs. John L. Whitehurst, newly elected president, were anything but isolationists...
...Standard Oil (N.J.) properties in 1937, and has not yet indemnified Standard. The textbook justice of the State Department's stand did not impress the Bolivians. When their Government asked its Senate for authority to negotiate with Standard, the only result was a wave of anti-U.S. sentiment that still boils in the streets...