Word: unamerican
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...France, Italy, or Germany." It would improve neither the morals, discipline, nor health of U.S. youth. "The Army wants boys for twelve months consecutively because it wants to change their habits of thought, to make them soldiers, if you please, for the rest of their lives." It was unAmerican. "Militarism has always led to war, not to peace. . . . We are indeed bankrupt of ideas if we cannot provide a method by which necessary military forces and reserves are provided by an American voluntary system." He suggested a summer training program for 200,000 volunteers...
...Army (he got out in 1945) but lost none of his technique there. He believes in clarity of line and clarity of story in dancing, is one of the few modern dancers a non-aficionado audience can watch and understand through a whole program-Classical ballet, he thinks, is unAmerican. Says he: "The ballet is such a sophisticated vocabulary. It's perfect for the experiences of lords and ladies, princesses and fairies and other imaginary characters. But those of us who want to talk about our own environment here find it inadequate...
...Washington Times-Herald): "There is less & less reason every year for fear of old age. ... It is silly to talk about 'hopeless' [diseases] in these times." Cried Monsignor Robert E. McCormick, presiding judge of the ecclesiastical tribunal in New York's Catholic Archdiocese: "Anti-God, unAmerican, and a menace to veterans...
Speaking informally to a small group in Phillips Brooks House Lounge for the Veterans' League of America, Brigadier General H. C. Holdridge last night assailed the Army caste system, calling it "feudalistic, undemocratic, and unAmerican...
...success of the world security organization may well depend upon U.S. military power. But it is not "feasible" for the U.S. to support a large standing force. The alternative: "A trained citizenry is . . . necessary to a respectable military posture for our nation in the postwar period." Far from being unAmerican, the report declared, the plan for military training "is in accordance with our best traditions...