Word: wrenched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dear - I cried so hard when I reached my cabin-the flowers, the hams, the turkeys, the cables made me cry more. I hated to leave America as never before. Though, always it has been a wrench. It is hard to turn one's back on light and wealth and lavish welcome and illusion, only to meet again with the dark struggle, poverty, gloom, dread and want...
...clichè of expansion. Worst of all, its Premier was a Navy man. And of all the Navy men in Japan, he was Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai -the tall, boyish, amiable, aristocratic, experienced (thrice Navy Minister), pro-U. S., moderate Naval Commander in Chief who last summer threw a monkey wrench into the proposed Rome-Berlin-Tokyo military machine. As Navy Minister he refused to put his great fleet at the disposal of two major countries with minor navies...
...spread their evil and false propaganda through our schools and through our school text books (see Liberty Magazine December 30, 1939)." Probably he meant it. But even if all this is true, there are better ways of telling it to the people. It wasn't necessary to toss a wrench into the machinery of law-giving and justice-giving...