Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diagnosis. Dr. Binkley, although too conscientious a historian to be a partisan, is too good a Midwesterner not to wish Republicans well. And he knows, from his personal political experience as a delegate to party caucuses and conventions, as well as from his reading, that to defeat Franklin Roosevelt in 1944 the Republicans must offer the voters something more than another "return to normalcy...
...Committee also found that there seemed to be "an attitude of regulations for the sake of regulations." "For instance," they point out, "the students may have as many cooked tomatoes as they wish, sometimes getting two or three whole tomatoes...
...judgment. My job was to estimate public opinion for the Führer. You need judgment for that." He does not smoke. "Tobacco ruins the palate and prevents you from smelling the countryside." When a guard seems dubious about complying with a demand, Hess shouts: "That is what I wish. Those are my orders." His pathological hatred of Jews and Russia has never wavered...
...would be no obstacle on the part of the Government." Several motives might be behind the Kremlin's new move-none of them religious. Stalin, a realistic man, may be looking for wider popular support among the Russian masses, thousands of whom have remained doggedly Christian. He may wish to counteract the influence of the Roman Catholic Church (the Vatican radio has been broadcasting to Russia in Russian). He may have a watchful eye on the predominantly Greek Orthodox Balkans. He may think it best for Russia to present a Christian front to Christian Europe, and to the other...
Using the then hostile Italy as an example, he stated that as we move into Calabria, the liberals will wish to destroy all existing forms of the present Italian political set-up. We should, he declared, be willing to cooperate with both pro and anti factions in the local areas, depending upon which faction is predominate and would be received best by the populace. His two main points were that we should work through existing social organizations and that we should proceed by small integrated steps rather than by bold moves in changing over the political set-up of Italy...