Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...torture human beings (wrong mind you not inexpedient) wrong to have a government based on informers and intimidation. He feels it in his bones that men ought to be free. He looks forward, therefore, to having more human liberty on this continent, not less. To this end he may wish to make radical changes in the political and economic structure of America. Like Thomas Jefferson, when he abolished primogeniture, a citizen of this republic may today wish to swing an axe against the root of privilege. But he will do so only that a greater number of citizens...
...Here are a few messages I wish you would send to Japan...
Regarding your last issue of TIME, you ran an article about the Merchant Marine calling us suckers and slackers. Also stating that we were expected to boo the message from the President of the United States. I wish to inform you that we are not slackers and suckers and also we respect our Commander in Chief, the President of the United States. We Merchant Mariners, 10,000 strong, are trying to build up the reputation of the backbone of the American victory fleet...
...plump, 52-year-old Franz Werfel, now living in California, did much to satisfy the curiosity of his Catholic admirers. In a letter to Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of New Orleans, he wrote: "I am ... a Jew by origin and have never been baptized. On the other hand, I wish to profess here before you and the world that ... I have been decisively influenced and molded by the spiritual forces of Christianity and the Catholic Church. I see 'in the holy Catholic Church the purest power and emanation sent by God to this earth to fight the evils...
...when a man is a nuisance the best way to make him behave properly is to burden him with responsibility." It was no go. When Cripps disagreed with his fellows over an issue of principle he simply resigned from the Committee. Outside he urged, against the Committee's wish, collaboration by Labor with all Parties opposed to the British Government. Indignant, the Committee expelled him from the Party. Said Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: "The Labor Party has blown its brains...