Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among U. S. editors and statesmen the prestige of Foreign Affairs, sobersided, grey-backed quarterly, is high. Its circulation is modest (9.500). When Foreign Affairs' thick-thatched, sobersided editor, Hamilton Fish Armstrong, addresses his audience, he does not hope to be heard by the U. S. at large. But sometimes Editor Armstrong has more to say than he can pack into the pages of his quarterly and wants to say it to more than his usual readers. On such occasions his thoughts overflow into a book, the fruit of studious reading, conservatively liberal thinking, alert observations gleaned...
...title and its challenge Author Armstrong accepts from a speech of Mussolini's (1930): "The struggle between two worlds [democracy and fascism] can permit no compromise. . . . Either we or they!" To this ugly Duce-ism. Editor Armstrong soberly agrees, resoundingly replies with a statement of the American position which no American has yet so well expressed...
Early in his essay, Editor Armstrong makes it clear that his warning is against all autarchs. Red Stalin as well as Brown Hitler or Black Mussolini. And his rallying cry is to all democracies, to consolidate their national thinking and their honor against the spread of autarchy. He does not call for war: "The liberal states could fight, might win. But could their liberalism survive the wartime curbs that would be prerequisite to victory and the new waves of economic deterioration and social disorder that afterwards would overtake the victor along with the vanquished? Hardly. . . . The call...
...practical defensive steps for democracies Mr. Armstrong suggests: 1) naval and military agreements; 2) tariff and commodity agreements; 3) money stabilization at home and abroad; 4) above all, determination not to finance the Dictators again...
...should the U. S. try to rally other democracies? Why not let Europe severely alone? It cannot be done, says Editor Armstrong. U. S. sentiment is still strong for isolation, but it will have to learn better. "In a surge of reaction against all that they had been through in 1917-1918 the American people decided to learn nothing from that experience. . . . We are not yet in sight of the time when the great American public will see that there is one way, and one only, for them to make certain of not being involved in future world wars: that...