Word: treasonously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this force in existence . . . peril still exists. ... At this moment, a circular is sent out which will have the effect of impairing discipline. . . . Without expressing legal opinions, I will simply say that I think that comes very near the line of subversive activities against the United States-if not treason." With this terrible word in their beaks, the correspondents broke from the room like a flushed covey...
Snorted Isolationist Wheeler: "One can probably excuse Secretary Stimson on the ground of his age and incapacity. Everyone . . . knows that the old gentleman is unable to carry on the duties of his office and some go so far as to say that ... he is gaga. ... If it is near treason to ask the President to keep his sacred promises . . . then ... I am guilty of 'near treason," whatever that may be." He admitted that 1,000,000 cards had been sent out under his Congressional frank, declared that: 1) the America First Committee had paid for the printing...
...atmospheres, takes less note of the ethical void which made possible so much 20th Century diplomacy. On the social sickness of his countrymen, and its results, however, he has some unhappy things to say. Ever since World War I ended Germany has systematically plotted France's downfall, through treason in high places, through the venality of the Paris press, through espionage facilitated by France's leaders. M. Chéradame says the French leaders would not listen to him when he urged a knockout blow at Italy when World War II began. With Italy out, he thinks...
...superior air force. "In order to see things as they are," says he, "Americans need a disintoxication treatment. In order to act with decisive energy, Americans must realize that they have been just as methodically deceived as were the French and English." They must get rid of pacifism, defeatism, treason, isolationism, confusion, the delusion that the end of Hitler would bring real peace...
...that the hushed new Romanesque tower is a storehouse of most of the social and political dynamite of our times. There are the secret minutes of chancelleries and general staffs, secret memoirs, state papers, conspiratorial records of revolutionary parties and governments, data on plot and counterplot, war, espionage, assassination, treason. Far more complete than the great French, British and German war libraries (even if these were available), the Hoover Library makes Stanford the future focus for all important study in 20th-century social history...