Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...didn't have the guts to name, nor have you the fortitude today. Thus it is inevitable that we shall all be choking in the fumes of your hypocrisy sooner or later-for Adolf Hitler is the man of the year, if there be any such, and I wish to go on record now as predicting that you gutless hypocrites will pass him over again in favor of some such ass as Churchill-or Rusefelt even, if he is successful by the year-end in pushing us into this...
...carefully documented, and goes into thorough detail. But the abundance of facts, and the assumption that the reader can supply the general economic background necessary to understand the relation between scores of separate conclusions makes this guide to the mazes of Defense tough going for the layman. He may wish that his author had given more thought to his audience, but if he perseveres, his reward will be a logical and connected picture of a development that overshadows everything else in America today...
Your editorial of October 28 entitled "A House Divided" has been called to any attention. Since you have included me in the list of those with divided most recently discovered weakness. The loyalties, I feel called upon to explain my own position, and wish also to take the opportunity to point out the gross misstatements of fact with regard to others...
With these thoughts in mind. I wish you could clear up this matter, at least as far as my personal standpoint is concerned. Michael J. de Sherhinin. Ass't Managing Editor of The Dartmouth
...thoroughly characteristic of the men who wish to have a "peace" by arrangement with the Nazis that they, are never able to take a convincing stand against Nazi doctrines, nor against Fascism in general. Their sense of the historic present is so feeble that they can submit to doing Hitler's work in the United States--which is precisely what that are doing. In the course of this curious, but manifest activity, they have the effrontery to say that those who realize that compromise with Nazism is physically impossible "have failed to state their peace aims." I have never...