Word: respectability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...directed to those members of the Harvard faculty who "taught us the folly of 1917-18" and deplores the fact that at this time those "from whom we learned non-intervention are not saying much." I have known four generations of Harvard students. I have a high respect for the integrity of their views. They deserve an explanation from those of us who bear some responsibility for the creation of the non-interventionist attitude at Harvard at the present time...
...night a priest burst into our camp and told us in perfect French that the Germans were in the neighborhood and we had better get out of town. Naturally our first impulse was to believe him-just out of respect to a man of the cloth-but then we noticed that he disappeared immediately, and we soon realized that he was a fifth-column agent . . . . We have observed that the Nazi fifth column is efficiently organized to an unbelievable extent, with the idea of creating panic among civilians, rousing them to evacuate towns in the area where the Nazis want...
This officer's respect for German military power, plus Leopold's conception of absolute neutrality and his will for peace, led the King in 1936 to abandon Belgium's alliance with France. After that he became more & more subject to the influence of Flemish, anti-French thought. He had no personal liking for the French, used to vacation in the Austrian Tyrol and Italy, caused a mild scandal in 1938 by letting his picture be taken bathing near Bolzano with a certain Frau Rosa Weisinger (see cut, p. 32). Leopold had the most solemn assurances from Adolf...
...such a setting in the U. S. have been the chosen material of the South's most gifted modern writers. The Southern Review itself was founded five years ago by writers who thought seriously about "Agrarianism," i.e., rehabilitation of the land, return to the life on it, respect for its literary possibilities - as a salvation for the South...
...prolific gossip. Recently Hollywood found an exciting new interest-the war. Before the invasion of France most Hollywooders began (and ended) their reading of the press with the movie columns. Now they are beginning to bend an ear toward Roosevelt, Churchill and Reynaud with as much respect as toward Louella Parsons or Jimmie Fidler...