Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lord Halifax's first formal speech to the U. S. (at a postponed dinner of The Pilgrims, Anglo-American society) was not the kind of speech that Americans eat up. It seemed careful, vague, not so much impersonal as depersonalized. As a statement of Britain's war aims it was neither as stirring nor as plain as Winston Churchill's words, which always have enough tabasco in them to remind Americans that Winnie is half-American himself. Nevertheless, though Lord Halifax was obviously not the kind of man who ever could or ever would quite clear...
...this point almost everything was harmony and light. But how do you go about realizing in practice this theoretical war aim? Here there was disagreement. One view held that it is fantastic and dangerous to seek to impose, upon any country, preconceived economic and political solutions--even the four freedoms of Franklin Roosevelt. Apparently the defeat of Hitler, the restoration of peace, and the creation of an international order are the proper first steps. Any internal economic or social changes will have to follow peace. Yet this view admittedly runs the risk of any Versailles; it does not prevent...
...Apparently we are heading for war, an American imperialism cloaked in Luceful euphemisms, and a career of international political and economic frustration. This happy state will persist until the distant day when everyone becomes tired of it all. Which is not a very pretty nor a very proclaimable war aim...
First speaker of the evening was Carl E. Schorske, Teaching Fellow in History, who said that England's only war aim now was the defeat of Hitlerism, at best a rather short-sighted purpose. Robert G. Davis, instructor in English, following Schorske, suggested that, if war aims are not stated immediately, any peace following an English victory will be an attempt to reestablish the status quo in Europe...
Last week's Government plans were announced by spruce, aristocratic Captain Oliver Lyttelton, President of the Board of Trade. For months Britain has cut the production of consumers' goods by price controls, taxes, limitations on supplies, propaganda. The aim has been to free labor for war industries, prevent inflation, encourage investment in war securities as against general spending. As a result most consumers'-goods industries have recently worked only part time, often at as little as 20% of capacity. Last week Captain Lyttelton pointed out that these part-time operations were eating up the factories' working...