Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poland, the land of Copernicus, Chopin, Mme Curie, Paderewski, is one place where estheticism and the laboratory spirit are not considered synonymous with general debility. And so it has been perfectly natural for Edward Smigly-Rydz to keep up his painting. One of the works of which the clean-shaven, egg-bald General is proudest is a self-portrait, with a beard and a shock of hair...
Elliott Roosevelt, like his father (see p. 13), had his say over the radio: "We haven't been neutral in spirit, because it is impossible for decent human beings to remain neutral in the face of scientific barbarity, but as a unit, as a nation, we will have to make up our minds as to just what our course of action will be as regards this awful destruction...
...depths to dictatorship, there to take away the guarantee of life, law and liberty." To associate British democracy with Nazi methods meant the destruction of all that the Empire ever meant: "That power which burns Christian ethics, which cheers its onward progress with barbarous paganism, which vaunts the spirit of aggression and conquest, which derives strength and pleasure from perverted persecution and uses the threat of murderous force-that power cannot ever be a trusted friend of British democracy...
Whether his spirit would put Winston Churchill in the Cabinet was dwarfed by bigger questions last week: certainly Britain's ruling class still considers him brilliant, erratic, unsafe; certainly Prime Minister Chamberlain would regard his entry as a major calamity. But in or out, Cabinet Minister or M. P. for Epping, Winston Churchill served last week as a symbol of British democracy, as an oppositionist of the kind that totalitarian governments cannot endure...
...There is one thing our peoples-yours and mine-have in common: freedom is the air we breathe, freedom is in our blood and bones: the independence of the human spirit. But we are so used to it that if we ever think of it at all, we think it has dropped into our laps like manna from the skies, and unless we go a little beneath the surface in our questioning, we may feel that we enjoy this freedom because we are better than other people and therefore more worthy of it. Indeed we may give an impression...