Word: moral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the New Deal's emergency measures for recovery he would not quarrel. But because a nation's greatest moral, spiritual, economic and governmental change is involved in a shift in its fundamental social ideas, the big question remained: Does the New Deal represent such a shift? Said Herbert Hoover: "This is solely an issue. Honest men will treat it as such." Analyzing New Deal policies in currency, in finance, in agriculture he found such a change; a similar change in its insistence that the U. S. social system is outworn and in its tendency to increasing regimentation...
...indignant liberals. The liberal majority proceeded to condemn both Russian aggression and the actions of those groups which hope to use Russia's actions as an excuse to rush the United States into war. In the same breath this majority voted for a rider which opposed both a moral embargo on Russia, and special loans to Finland, as unneutral--an apparently paradoxical stand. Yet this stand is not a unique paradox it represents a fundamental dualism in the thinking of American liberals. These people idealistically believe in morality in international relations; but they are aware of the fact that Realpolitik...
...Therefore the Harvard Student Union protests the Administration's request for a moral embargo imposed against the Soviet Union, and opposes the proposed loan to Finland of $70,000,000 to the Finnish government and the proposed moratorium on Finnish war debts...
...Finland] is a little nation, but a great nation. Size is not the measure of greatness. Greatness lies in the industry, the courage, the character of people. It lies in the intelligence, the education, the moral and spiritual standards of a people. It lies in their love of peace and freedom. All these measures of greatness can be expressed in one word-Finland...
Eastern Front will become a reality." "The result of the war is not to be decided only by military operations," Premier Edouard Daladier significantly declared. "In the final decision the evolution of international policy and the relationship between powers and the action of moral forces will play a big part." Evolving at an ominous pace were the international policies and relationships of Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini...