Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...does the reasoning seem valid when it is plain that our land is rich enough to support us all comfortably. Our interest in European affairs is necessarily cultural, incidentally economic...
...help in every way we can. I have two sons of war age. It is the greatest testimonial of my sincerity that I can offer when I say that I believe the well-being of all that I hold dearest will best be served by adoption of this plain, strong resolution." The Legion men cheered...
...With Europe, the Near East and Africa under control, the Axis would have the economic resources necessary to fight any kind of war, including a trade war with the U. S. That the U. S. was not left out of the Rome discussions was made plain by the Italian press which chorused a warning to leave the Eastern Hemisphere alone...
...patriotism of these men is not questioned. No fifth column is mentioned. The charges against them are appeasement, playing politics with national defense, negligence in face of danger, blundering, in eptitude, plain stupidity. Most crushing part of the indictment is the simple quota tions in Chapter I from survivors of the Battle of Flanders - brief, unemotional statements about the enemy's superiority in equipment, casual comments that it is "the story of an Army doomed before they took the field." The rest of the book is a true bill against the politicians who doomed these soldiers...
Very few people put much stock in Attorney-General Jackson's opinion that the deal was in accord with international law. The plain fact is that one man, the President, surrounded by war-minded, Anglophile advisers, decided this thing on his own responsibility, and confronted Congress and the nation with the finished article, without asking for their approval either before or afterwards...