Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whether or not the sentiment for peace grows in China, a Chungking armistice would not mean the end of the Far Eastern conflict. The last flanking movements in the three-year-old War in China had become the first forays of the Battle of the Eastern Empire...
Though the peace story ran its course in less than a week, it had had its intended effect. It had shaken Britain's faith in her leaders, had probably increased isolationist sentiment in the U. S. by making U. S. citizens believe that Britain's cause was hopeless. It was Hitler's old familiar technique of waging war with words. With rumors, fear, suspicion diabolically sown, he had again set out to demoralize his enemy before the cannon spoke...
...with the U. S., he logically dug Lawyer Westrick out of the pigeonhole marked: "familiar with the inside of a U. S. businessman's lunch club, controllable." No beer-hall Nazi is Dr. Westrick, but simply a scout and atmosphere-conjurer, sent over to feel out Big Business sentiment and plant some seeds...
...sinister, pervasive, ineluctable. Its strength lies in the fascination which the British upper classes exert upon the U. S. upper classes. As proof they submit a somewhat original interpretation of Anglo-American relations before 1917. During World War I, they claim, there was a deep cleavage in U. S. sentiment: "To upper-class America, the Allies truly represented civilization, for England's culture was their culture too." So the upper classes foisted World War I on the rest of the U. S. "The string quartet played dinner music as upper-class America marched...
...fall in with the spirit of the times. . . ." By writing his life and, still more, his opinions, he hoped to give an image of a class, a generation and an age, "more or less as Henry Adams wrote about himself." The result is an ingratiating hodgepodge of reminiscence, ironic sentiment, anecdote, medical history, opinionation, earnest philosophy. As such the book is an excellent portrait of an aging, humane, liberal conservative...