Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, remembering 1928's upheaval and having heard that it might be repeated, Republican Nominee Wendell Willkie announced that he would try to break the Solid South again in 1940. Too soon it was to judge the practical force of Willkie sentiment stirring in the South. But there were seeds of a revolt against entrenched politics. To Wendell Willkie went hundreds of telegrams from Southern Democrats (see p. 14). In Richmond, Charleston, Atlanta, in Texas, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Willkie clubs sprang up overnight, formed by lifelong Democrats to back a Republican candidate...
...Sentiment...
...head in the lion's jaws and incur the enmity of the German people, particularly at the present time. . . . The highly vocal but locally infinitesimal minority of our people who call for aid to the Allies "short of war" gives an entirely wrong impression of real public sentiment hereabouts. We feel that such actions are not "short of war" but provocative of war itself. We are unconvinced that our frontier is in Europe...
...There exists strong sentiment in this part of the country toward making friends with Japan on the same basis. Whatever may have been our idealistic notions a while ago, we cannot save China. Japan knew that we could not do so. A realistic view of the present situation would indicate that a cessation of fighting would save more lives and prevent further useless destruction. Does it make any practical difference to us who owns the rubber and the tin, provided we can trade with the owner? If we do not like the owner, then again the only argument worth making...
...beneath the appeals to sentiment lay a hard U. S. recognition of a hard truth: that the British Fleet would never be surrendered to Hitler so long as the sons & daughters of British sailors were cared for in U. S. homes...