Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Satisfying immediately the national sentiment for preparedness and military training, the Naval V-7 cruises this summer proved unexpectedly popular and successful among college students. Over a third of the first cruise on the U.S.S. Wyoming starting in the middle of July came from Harvard...
Because Senator Wheeler specifically challenged our results which showed Montana in favor of conscription, "we have rechecked sentiment in this State on this question: "Do you favor increasing the size of our Army and Navy by drafting men now between the ages of 21 and 31 to serve in the armed forces for one year?" The results were almost exactly the same as those reported earlier for Montana...
...power. The last of the Shoguns, Keiki, too international-minded to keep Japan bottled in tradition, resigned and abolished the office. Japan adopted Western institutions: parliaments, premiers, political parties, elections. In recent months Japan has experienced a wave of such intense nationalism and such intense national hardship that sentiment has grown for casting out Christianity (see p. 37} and for throwing over democratic ways, reverting to something much stronger, more Japanese-i.e., the military Shogunate or something very much like...
That a strong sentiment for non-intervention existed among the undergraduates last fall was established by the fact that the American Independence League, an organization dedicated to peace but having no specific aims except "keeping out of war" signed up 600 members in three or four days. Except for one brief outburst six months later, the A. I. L. disappeared as quickly as it came...
This set the tone for student anti-war agitation up until the invasion of Holland, and Belgium, at which time, although no formal poll of undergraduate sentiment was taken, the attitude of the undergraduates toward war could be summed up as follows: We will not fight just to preserve and restore democracy in Europe, and we see no direct threat to America in the present war--therefore we're against any involvement...