Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Japan on the same basis. Whatever may have been our idealistic notions a while ago, we cannot save China. Japan knew that we could not do so. A realistic view of the present situation would indicate that a cessation of fighting would save more lives and prevent further useless destruction. Does it make any practical difference to us who owns the rubber and the tin, provided we can trade with the owner? If we do not like the owner, then again the only argument worth making is still an argument that can be backed up by force...
Hearstpapers handled the Wiegand piece with care, and played its headlines way down. Unspectacular also - but devastating - was the press conference comment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "That brings recollections." - e.g., unwanted Austria, disclaimed Sudetenland, renounced Bohemia, Moravia, useless Memel, undesired Poland...
Walter Millis: "I believe what MacLeish said to be exactly true but easily misunderstood. Battleships are useless unless armored with conviction; and the books, stressing both the filth of war and the partial falsity of the slogans, did tend to undermine conviction when their intent was to purify and strengthen it. But they ought to have been written. Their humane and rational teaching must be a vital element in forming the new moral purpose to arm a civilization challenged by war deliberately raised to a new height of filthiness and waged with slogans trebly false. . . . The right to think...
...useless for those who have consistently argued that the fate of democracy and the tangible interests of his country were being decided on the battlefields of France to lose hope. The mistakes that were made in the past cannot be rectified. We can only look back on Versailles, the Harding Administration, Austria, Munich, and above all Spain. We now know that Hoare, Leval, Chamberlain, and the Vatican were wrong, terribly wrong. We can only say that the fondest hopes of Senator Borah are now fulfilled; America is isolated...
...reflection on President Roosevelt." In Washington, Third-Termers said that Senator Ellender had acted on his own, that an uninstructed delegation from Louisiana was precisely what they wanted. But Little Bull's booing seemed to indicate that for politicos who are on the skids, Term III is useless as a brake...