Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With this change in sentiment has grown a feeling that, willy-nilly, the U. S. will not long stay out-the same belief which swept the U. S. in 1939 when World War II broke out, this time not quite so apathetic but just as fatalistic. In Washington men spoke of "when the U. S. is at war," talked of the date-in two months, four months, six months. Many Congressmen unwillingly shared the belief. Elsewhere, although many people did not want to admit it even to themselves, men began to act on the assumption that the U. S. would...
Chief reason for the secession was the realization that it was absolutely impossible to keep the Union together. Although this was known at the meeting on October 8th, the vote solidified sentiment...
...news of a similar sentiment last week...
Said Margie: "A little romance and sentiment help to while away a man's lonely hours. I only wish I could do more for our soldiers. . . . I do hope the generals won't give my picture to married men. I don't want anybody to get the wrong idea...
...continued resistance. But French West Africa, an area eight times as big as France, had not. He had good reason to believe that the Germans were much interested in West Africa, had indeed sent more than 300 technicians and advisers into the area to develop pro-Axis airfields, garrisons, sentiment. Therefore he proposed that he personally lead a French force to Dakar, the capital, and subdue it by persuasion. He was sure that overwhelming opinion favored him rather than the Germans. General Spears took the idea to the Prime Minister; and Winston Churchill, the author of Gallipoli, approved-even ordered...