Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With her back to the sea, Holland's outlook before superior German strength is indeed dark. If she joins Germany she will lose her independence and become but a vassal of that power. If she maintains her neutrality she stands in danger of destruction. As regards the present there seems little choice. In the long run, however, it behooves the Dutch to brave the risk of opposition. A crushed Holland will in the end find liberation. A Germanized Holland will ingloriously terminate a great page of history and will leave a blot upon the Dutch name which nothing...
...Arras, while revolutionized Russia was hopefully expected to recover from her bribed lethargy of 1916. Our impetuous publicist, Mr. J. M. Beck, was bewailing the fact that our late entrance into the war forbade our participation in anything more glorious than a triumphal march of occupation. For 1918 the outlook is changed. We see Russia reduced to impotence and the allied armies on the west front evacuating the positions won at so much cost in 1916 and 1917. We, know now that every combatant regiment overseas or training at home will suffer casualties in battle before triumphal marches signalize German...
...barbarous method of warfare and of a scarcity of suitable material. Our material resources for this warfare are already improved, and are being rapidly augmented, whilst science is placing at our disposal means of offense and defense of which we have been in need. --The Outlook...
...believe in optimism and in an encouragement of the nation in its present cause. But we maintain that a distortion of news to inflate the spirits of the people serves no good purpose. When the outlook is dark, as it now is, it should be known, so that our energies may be redoubled. This is the people's war. It is only fair that they know which way the tide is turning. Moreover, our purpose is sincere enough not to require a misleading encouragement. We need not be patted on the back by sentimental expressions of the "nobility...
...chief omission of emphasis in the interesting comment which you published on my previous suggestion is on my urging of the political or social attitude. Profiteering, private gain, crushing weaker nations--in those vocations there is no outlook of social justice, or of righteous acquiescence in the other fellow's striving for the same standards that we seek for ourselves. Instead of impotently denying the materialistic strain in the individual's life and thus breeding hypocrisy or scoffing, let us recognize the economic basis and utilize this recognition for such a broadening as will give the whole people a square...