Word: weakeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Camps. If almost nobody in the U. S. wants war, almost nobody in the U. S. as of February 1939 wants to be unprepared for it. Said Pundit Walter Lippmann last week: "There is no responsible party which thinks the United States can afford to be weak in a world where all other nations are armed to the teeth...
...Author Mumford, Fascism is an "invention of the weak and neurotic" based on the riot act. "Without the cowardly aid of the more civilized nations of the world, Fascism could neither extend its conquests nor even stabilize its domestic regime...
...retained the former Premier's Cabinet intact, that he announced that the Imredy racial laws and land reform schemes would not be scrapped. But the Jewish legislation was expected to be modified in application if not on the statute books and land reform would probably be slowed up. Weak Hungary could not afford to slap the Nazis directly in the face by abandoning the bills. The new Government was expected outwardly to comply with Nazi wishes, but at the same time quietly to sabotage the laws' effectiveness...
Even though he was too weak to take his daily drive, the Pope would have little to do with doctors, preferred to have his valet try "home remedies" to ease his pain. He ate only soft, bland foods: boiled chicken, thin vegetable soups, small amounts of rice pudding, occasional sips of red wine or champagne. Last November he had another serious attack of cardiac asthma, often had to get out of bed at night and sit in an armchair to relieve his coughing spells...
...Sothern who, as "Dr. Livingston," easily walks away with the acting honors, and Ralph Bellamy, as an incredibly stupid detective, he traces her half way around the world and, of course, falls madly in love with her once she is caught. A rather unconvincing happy ending is the only weak note in the entire production...