Word: temperance
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...down by Professor Glueck, would of necessity force the placing of the war guilt on the Axis nations, since, under his plan, no members of the United Nations would be tried for war crimes. In view of the pre-war manipulations of Messrs. Chamberlain and Bonnet, who represented the temper of Britain and France at the time, such a stand would be both false and farcical. The trial of men for actual war crimes would involve various legal technicalities, such as the definition of a "war crime" and the decision as to whether subordinates should be held for crimes committed...
...hours one afternoon last week the U.S. Senate chamber reflected the feeling and temper of pre-Pearl Harbor times. Three Senators, all onetime die-hard isolationists, rose to lambaste the bill drafting 18-& 19-year-olds. They wanted to retain the clause, opposed by the Army and thrown out by a joint conference committee, requiring a year of training in the U.S. for every teen-age soldier before being sent to combat duty overseas...
With the Allies in Africa and the Nazis in France, Spain and Portugal may have to maneuver smartly to keep from becoming a nut in a nutcracker. One factor may keep Dictator Franco from cooperating with the Nazis, no matter what pressure Hitler applies: the temper of masses of Spaniards who like neither Hitler nor Franco...
...many British ears the peacetime Sunday pealing brought nostalgia to temper the rejoicing. No clamor came from some 1,200 parish churches, either because their old grey stones had collapsed under bombs or because partial damage had left the bells insecure in the belfries. The famed bells of St. Mary-le-Bow in London's Cheapside were silent. Ten of the twelve had crashed from the 90-ft. belfry ceiling when the church was bombed (TIME, Sept...
...quick glimpse of war plants, could be so confident of his own statistics-94 or 95% of the goals-when their own charts showed a less rosy picture. Congressmen and correspondents wondered how, after his conducted tours, he could be so sure that he knew better than anyone the temper of the people...