Word: understood
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...this eve of an event of import for centuries, we turn our thoughts to His Majesty, the King and Emperor, who al ways has understood the thought of the country...
...years since U. S. Novelist Winston Churchill (The Crisis, Richard Carvel) last published a book, he has kept much to himself. He lived quietly in Cornish, N. H., and it was understood that he had stopped writing. Far from it: he was ruminating and writing his profession of religious faith, The Uncharted...
...different stamp; from militarism in Germany, that it will fruit in no more lasting security or real democracy than in the past. But next September we may well be Americanized. The determined efforts of patriotic men in influential positions, the old hates, and the fallacies we thought we understood after the first World War will have swung public opinion over A new enthusiasm and healthy faith in the good old American ideals of democracy will have united the discordant elements, and youth will be freed by definite action from skepticism and disillusionment...
When the mathematician Leibniz started to explain the mathematics of the infinitely small to Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia, she said she already understood it from watching the behavior of her courtiers...
Even to people who have no means of sharing Chesterton's European culture and Roman Catholic faith, his thesis, though it is not unique, will seem uniquely clean-cut. It is serenely distinct from cliches of wartime propaganda. Chesterton points out that, if Europe's politicians had understood the real issues at stake, they would never have weakened Christian Germany (Austria) after the War, nor allowed pagan Prussia again to become strong. He foresaw that Naziism and Bolshevism would get together. "If or when the New Germany moves one inch towards infringing on the present ancient frontiers...