Word: temperance
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Such a time as this of frustration and discontent is perhaps the worst possible time to gauge the true temper of the people. Yet the English people reveal themselves in their talk. What they mostly talk about is, of course, the things near to their lives. There is a notable absence, even in the press, of great debate on the great issues of human destiny. And yet, encouragingly, there is a sense of the fate fulness of the epoch...
Viceroy. The Indian apologists, at their best, reveal a passionate conviction; the British, a rational caution. There could be few better examples of this typical British temper than Scottish Viceroy Linlithgow. He is a model of sober British effort, often suspected of misunderstanding, frequently attended by friction. Son of Australia's first Governor-General, he was born to great wealth, went to Eton, served throughout World War I, thereafter specialized in agriculture. In 1926-28 he traveled exhaustively in India as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Agriculture. Later he served on the Parliamentary committee which formulated...
...meeting showed its temper early by passing a set of 13 "requisite principles for peace" submitted by Chairman John Foster Dulles and his inter-church Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace. These principles, far from putting all the onus on Germany or Japan, bade the U.S. give thought to the short sighted selfishness of its own policies after World War I, declared that the U.S. would have to turn over a new leaf if the world is to enjoy lasting peace. Excerpts...
Tonight's blackout will not only be a test of the efficiency of Cambridge A.R.P. officials and wardens, but will in a large way measure the temper of students in the University. Many are taking the whole affair as a sort of joke, something which is being done to soothe the fears of local matrons in order that they may sleep more securely. Students at Oxford, too, were amused by the blackout preparations made by their own colleges, until German demolition bombs aimed at a nearby factory nearly blew their heavy stone buildings to bits. The indifference of certain Harvard...
...Vichy could no longer pretend to be neutral, few thought that the men of Vichy, who have wagered their personal futures on Axis success, would balk at ordering the French Navy to sail under Axis colors. But there was one practical obstacle: the temper of many French seamen, who have threatened sabotage if ordered to fight for the Axis...