Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Must we hate the enemy to win the war? That debate was going on, hotly and heavily, in the New York Times. The affirmative had been opened by Rex Stout, bewhiskered detective story writer, chairman of the Writers' War Board, with an article called We Shall Hate, or We Shall Fail...
...Stout wanted to rouse hatred against those Germans "who accept, either actively or passively, the doctrine of the German master race . . . [or] who, reluctant to join the Nazis, nevertheless failed, through lack of courage or conviction, to prevent the Nazis from . . . plunging the world into this filthy swamp of destruction." In other words, hate most of Germany...
...Stout urged this bitterness primarily as a safeguard against chickenhearted United Nations action at the peace table. Said he: "If we do not . . . [hate] those who do or tolerate the evil, the temptation will be irresistible at one point or another, to compromise with it instead of destroying...
...Christian doctrine of love for one's enemies? Stout called it "worse than double-talk . . . plain nonsense...
...Austell was wakened at 3 a.m. by muffled cries for help from outside, ran to his front yard, still heard the cries but saw no one, traced the sound to the gutter, heard a man's voice groaning deep in the earth. Police called by Austell found a stout, elderly drunk lost in the sewer, led him out through the entrance five blocks away...