Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover's method of approach to this problem there is no sign that he is conscious of attacking the problem from a new point of view; indeed, I am quite sure he has no such consciousness, nor any other from of self-consciousness about his relation to it. Yet a student examining the steps taken by the President and the comparatively small number of his public utterances on this subject can find evidence of what is in fact the case, namely, a man with scientific and engineering training approaching the problem of increasing the assurance of peace; a mind...
Evidence of this scientific approach is to be found in the passages of Mr. Hoover's Armistice Day speech which treat of the nature of peace. His treatment is not direct, for he is not aware that he is making a new definition of peace, or any definition of it. His treatment is allusive; his mind is expressing itself on a different aspect of the subject. Between the lines, however, one can recognize a conception unlike the one ordinarily in the minds of statesmen, and certainly differentiated from the average man's conception. Mr. Hoover's conception, by the very...
...battleships is in fighting other battleships. If there are no other battleships to fight, what is a battleship to do? It can not catch a cruiser. It is afraid of submarines. It will begin to dodge clumsily about and try to hide itself in smoke if airplanes approach. The plain fact is, the battleship is as out of place today as an ichthyosaurs on Broadway...