Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of spreading wars I think that we have every right and every reason to maintain as a national policy the fundamental moralities, the teachings of religion and the continuation of efforts to restore peace-for some day, though the time may be distant, we can be of even greater help to a crippled humanity. . . . It seems to me clear, even at the outbreak of this great war, that the influence of America should be consistent in seeking for humanity a final peace which will eliminate, as far as it is possible to do so, the continued use of force...
...Passionately though we may desire detachment, we are forced to realize that every word that comes through the air, every ship that sails the sea, every battle that is fought does affect the American future...
...improve their working and fighting. Hitler's deal with Stalin affronted Fascism, despite feverish rationalizations (TIME, Sept. 4). Italy would not have Spain, now, to hamper France's rear. That alliance of godless ones affronted also the Roman Catholic faith. Italy is dirt poor. Above all, though B. Mussolini can pep them up enormously, the Italian people do not honestly like to fight...
...German border was not reopened except to pedestrians. Exports stopped moving into Hitlerland from Mussoliniland, because the neutrality which B. Mussolini announced for himself was a status which Britain and France, preoccupied though they were with other business, watched with stern, forbidding eyes. The only good Indian used to be a dead Indian. The only safe Mussolini from now on is a Mussolini whose hand performs as his tongue has avowed...
...laws. Clinching his points with many a keenly human story, he reviews such legal circuses as the trial of Bruno Hauptmann (Author Train thinks Hauptmann got what he should have got but not the way he should have got it), a legal lynching like that of Leb Frank, who, though probably innocent, was convicted of rape by a Georgia jury in 1914, later physically lynched...