Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scientific Approach...
...conception underlying Mr. Hoover's approach (I quote the words from his speech of November 11), "peace is not a static thing." It is a dynamic thing, having sometimes greater momentum, sometimes less; sometimes it is more capable of matching the forces making for war, sometimes less. Peace is at once a resultant of forces and itself a force. Being a force, it permits no Nirvana-like rest to those who enjoy it or cherish it, or are responsible for it; it must be continuously fed, from time to time stimulated; must at all times be the object or fostering...
That a statesman's approach to the problem of peace and war is qualified, beneficially or otherwise as may be, by his individual experience, is illustrated by Mr. Hoover's reference to freedom of the seas in his Armistice Day speech. For what is commonly meant by freedom of the seas, Mr. Hoover has approval, as most statesmen have. On one point, within the broader field he is specific, and his being specific arises both from his habit of thinking in terms of forces and from his direct experience with food during the Great...
...reflections it has seemed that the novelty and importance of the American President's approach to the problem of war and peace lies not in the striking quality of one of his proposals that happens to be dramatic. Not does it lie in any other one of his specific proposals. It inheres rather in the fundamental quality out of which these specific proposals emerge; it lies in the method of approach, the method of a man who came to statesmanship after an education mainly in the field of modern science, and after an experience mainly in a field that brought...
President Hoover, in his approach to the problem of World peace, is employing scientific method, says Mark Sullivan '00, noted journalist who has been elected an Overseer of Harvard University for the year 1934. In an article which was published in the winter number of "The Yale Review", Sullivan defines President Hoover's theory of peace and shows that the method of Preserving peace advocated by the President is practically the opposite of the common conception of the means for maintaining peace...