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Americans do not hate easily. I've been through some of the toughest fighting in the Pacific, and yet I've seen no sign of real hatred in the hearts of our soldiers, sailors and marines. I've heard many speak with contempt for their foes, with disgust, dislike and many times with pity-but never with hatred. The Church, however, may arouse hatred against itself by a foolish campaign against a straw man (hatred) at this crucial moment...
...Miss Eleanor Catherine Judd of Kew Gardens, N.Y. wrote that she was of German descent, but "to show my contempt for the present German regime" she is teaching English to German refugees. She added: "My only other contribution to victory lies in the fact that I have been allowed to give 14 blood donations to the plasma bank, and am about to give my 15th. I am in splendid health, and only wish the Red' Cross would permit me to donate more often. It just so happens that I am blind, though I do not let it bother...
Among bluejackets there was talk of boycotting the city in favor of Oakland. Maddest of all were Navy wives and sweethearts, who showered the newspapers with letters beginning: "I am shocked and outraged. . . " ; "I can hardly find words to express my contempt...
Hamtramck's teachers won the support of the local Taxpayers Association and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. When the Board tried to increase its badgering of teachers by rescinding the Keyworth Code, the Circuit Court threatened a contempt action. Fifteen hundred students demonstrated against the Board...
Doenitz knew the British well, and he had profound contempt for them at the war's start. In the last war, after service on a cruiser in the Mediterranean, he was transferred to U-boats, earned his own command. His UB-68 was sunk by the British off Malta in 1918. Rescued, Doenitz was taken to England as a prisoner of war. There he so successfully feigned mental illness that his captors kept him comfortably in a sanatorium...