Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to congratulate the outgoing and felicitate the incoming battalion officers. Both groups are made up of very capable men. The old group did a fine job and we'll miss them but at the same time we feel sure the new men will live up to the standards...
Europe had a new royal house last week. In Dublin newspapers appeared a personal pronouncement: "I, Prince Michael Neale, landowner, will assume the title of Prince of the Saltees at the conclusion of the war. Also I wish it to be known that no one will be permitted to enter the Saltee Islands without a permit issued by me." Anybody caught interfering with the millions of birds or their eggs which inhabit those islands will be severely dealt with...
...foreigners had bad luck in developing Japan. "With this lesson in mind, the Western powers, in their desire to help China's national reconstruction, will wish to assure themselves that China would not become a potential enemy to them in the future. Japan, they would figure, has a population of 70 million, yet so much effort and sacrifice has been called for in order to defeat her. China has a population of 450 million souls, which may be increased to 600 million in thirty years. If China then threatens the democratic world, how much more strength would be required...
...belief in Christ, Poet Auden finds the substitute for the egotistical fantasy of Prospero and the contemporary artist, and for the wish-dreams of the man-in-the-street. For the time being...
...have seen in the paper reports of a speech I made to the Legislature on the same day on which you wrote that letter. This states my point of view and I need not repeat what I said then. I enclose a copy for your convenience if you wish to read...