Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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These Christians objected to the isolationist-pacifist line taken by the Christian Century (and by most of the Roman Catholic press*): "That, since all war is unChristian, Christians in neutral nations should not discriminate between belligerents . . . that Christian citizens of nations at war are disloyal to their Christian faith if...
"For the ultimate causes of the conflicts in both Europe and Asia all nations, including our own, must share responsibility. This admission of common guilt as regards the origins of the wars must not blind us to the incalculable issues at stake in the outcome of these wars. . . . An interpretation...
All these factors contributed to the week's culminating blow. As expected, the weak Abe Cabinet fell. But definitely not as expected, and to the Army's bitter confusion, the Cabinet which took its place was not militaristic, not chauvinistic, not even mystic-was for down-to-earth...
"The Soviet Pact of August 23 and the European War have changed the whole atmosphere of American cultural life" and have caused American authors of the left "tremendous confusion and disunity," according to Granville Hicks '23, former counsellor in American History and one-time member of the Communist Party.
No Arms, No Armour has, for all that, the limited distinction of being the best novel about the British Army during the late peace (1928-30, precisely) that has yet appeared. Author Henriques, 34, is a major in the regular army. He writes with authority and irony of the military...