Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They looked in vain. From the North Africa of the U.S. and Britain, a great sickness seeped through the world. Disillusion struck the peoples of Occupied Europe. Shame struck the peoples of the U.S. and Britain. For the sickness, disillusion and shame, the U.S. was chiefly responsible. Allied policy in North Africa was chiefly American policy-a fact advertised to the world before the fruits of that policy ripened. Then it was all too clear that, in the first brush with the Nazi enemy, the U.S. had retreated from its professed high principles...
Toward Reform. The figure who embodied and heightened the shame of North Africa was Admiral Jean François Darlan. History will decide whether Admiral Darlan deserved all that was said of him: that, because he had once sold out to the Axis, he was forever unfit for the company of free men. For the Allies, the important fact was that most free men so believed...
...Stratford Cunningham-Reid, a maverick Conservative who is regarded as a noisy nuisance by his own party, maladroitly interrupted the proceedings: he said that he did not object to Brown personally, but did object to his being thrust on the House by the Conservatives. Loud cries of "Rubbish . . . Nonsense . . . Shame" greeted his protest; and Laborite Will Thorne, the House's oldest member (86), blew two blasts on a football referee's whistle to express his disapproval even more loudly. When order was restored, Brown accepted: ". . . I will give to you my very level best and thereto I pledge...
...Longfellow House the other afternoon and had a lovely time being shown about by a descendant of the original Longfellow. Others of us had a pleasant visit at Camp Miles Standish on Sunday where we enjoyed meeting some Canadian officers who put our boys to shame in the glory of their plaid trousers and ties to match...
...them, and I would stand up before them and say: Boys, I told you before you went across the seas that this was a war against wars, and I did my best to fulfill the promise, but I am obliged to come to you in mortification and shame and say I have not been able to fulfill the promise. You are betrayed. You fought for something that you did not get. And the glory of the armies and the navies of the United States is gone like a dream in the night, and there ensues upon it, in the suitable...