Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early this week the bill had not even reached amendment stage. Leader Barkley bumbled about longer hours, which he hates, since as Leader he would have to sit longer than any of the others, had his bluff swiftly called. A Gallup poll showed U. S. sentiment for the bill down three points, though still 55% in favor. A disgusted Senator grumbled privately: "Wheeler's doing all right. He talked long enough to let Hitler take another country. If he can keep it up we won't need the bill anyway. It will be too late." The Senate talked...
Many Frances. Pundits have said that there are now three Frances: Occupied France, Unoccupied France and the "Free France" of General de Gaulle. It is not so simple as that. Through sentiment, self-interest and necessity Frenchmen have become so divided among themselves that to be a Frenchman is to be the victim of many contradictions and confusions. For example...
Earlier in the day the Student Union circulated a handbill throughout the College titled "Peace Emergency," which pointed out that public sentiment is swinging against the lend-lease bill...
...party: 'We will not participate in foreign wars and we will not send our army, naval, or air force to fight in foreign lands outside the Americas except in case of attack." So said Franklin Roosevelt on the eve of his election to a third term. That sentiment was a plank in the personal platform of almost every voter on November 4; there can be no doubt that "short of war" expressed the will of John Doe and family. It is this fact which makes the current furore over the Ellender Amendment to the Lease-Lend Bill seem a little...
Antwerp is Flemish, and many Flemings have long been more or less pro-German. Despite this, and despite the Nazis' thorough policy of "friendliness" toward civilians, as food thinned out, sentiment turned more & more sharply against Germany. But it was by no means pro-British. The general civilian conviction-and wish-seemed to be that both sides would lose...