Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Wendell Willkie rode into St. Louis last week through a blizzard of confetti and congested, noisy streets. It was the best welcome he had had so far. As the Willkie 16-car special rolled across New York and Ohio, reports of an upswing in Willkie sentiment had roused resurgent hopes. To the train had come an announcement that Franklin Roosevelt was about to charge into the Presidential campaign. The news was like a tonic. Willkie had at last smoked out the ghost. The absentee champ was at last coming out of his corner. With a new note of confidence...
...attempts of the Faculty Defense Group's Committee on Correspondence to form defense organizations on other college campuses indicate the sharp geographical division of sentiment over the war issues...
Although the White committees extend through the western colleges, they have much less general support. Replies received by the Harvard Committee indicate that in many colleges the full aid sentiment is used up in the existing machinery, and the formation of further groups is impossible...
Even in Chicago, where war sentiment in the faculty is strong, no group has sprung up. Feeling in the mid-western colleges seems of a passive sort. "The war is three thousand miles away. Elaborate efforts at preparation will only tend to lead...
With this change in sentiment has grown a feeling that, willy-nilly, the U. S. will not long stay out-the same belief which swept the U. S. in 1939 when World War II broke out, this time not quite so apathetic but just as fatalistic. In Washington men spoke of "when the U. S. is at war," talked of the date-in two months, four months, six months. Many Congressmen unwillingly shared the belief. Elsewhere, although many people did not want to admit it even to themselves, men began to act on the assumption that the U. S. would...