Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herbert Hoover is a humanitarian, an unpractical politician. His characteristic proposal, overlooking the very nature of warfare, was greeted with wide disapproval. Yet hardly had his critics' chorus died down when Mr. Hoover's one overnight convert, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, stuck out his tanned neck to echo the same idea. But Lindbergh went further than the Great Engineer. Denouncing Canada's entry into World War II, he asserted that "sooner or later" the U. S. must "demand the freedom" of all European possessions in the Western Hemisphere as a defensive tactic...
Lindbergh, neither a Great Humanitarian nor an ex-President, but merely an ex-Hero, was met with a critical blast that made the blatts at Hoover sound like cheers. The fury of Canada and England reflected the Senate cloakroom bitterness; finally Nevada's Key Pittman exploded: "Colonel Lindbergh's statement . . . encourages the ideology of the totalitarian governments and is subject to the construction that he approves of their brutal conquest of democratic countries through war. . . ." Messrs. Hoover & Lindbergh retired to their corner, without seconds...
...speaker denounced the Soviet. Then the A. L. P. men melted together all the high-Fahrenheit words they could find, forged a white-hot resolution that seared the "red and brown dictatorships" for "their shameless, hypocritical acts," their "brazen conduct," finally branded their U. S. apologists as "antiDemocratic, anti-humanitarian, antilabor, and the blind servants of the Russian international policy...
...Germans and with her help gets away to The Netherlands, she thinks her duty lies with others like him. With the help of Mme Rappard, the resourceful Countess Mavon (Edna May Oliver) and a bargeman's wife (Zasu Pitts), she organizes a large-scale underground railway whose humanitarian objectives are naturally misunderstood by the equally dutiful German military authorities. She spirits 200 captives out of the war zone before the intelligence service catches up with...
Behind all this were two American ideas. One was the simple humanitarian idea that U. S. hands should not be bloodied by making guns and bullets by which men anywhere were killed and maimed. The other was that the U. S. could be kept out of war if it did not become financially interested in selling arms, and its ships and citizens were made to keep away from the shooting...