Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the centuries wise men and fools have tried to define an Englishman and say how he got to be what he is. The latest such attempt is by Leland Dewitt Baldwin, an American historian, who put his witty, epigrammatic findings in a book and called it God's Englishman (Little, Brown...
...Embalmed. Racially, says Baldwin, the Englishman was produced by combining the impulsive Celt and the reflective Saxon. The amalgam resulted in men who were half superstitious, half realistic. The superstitious half became concerned with ethical values, the realistic half with how to get ahead. Says Baldwin: ". . . Sound common sense taught him that in a practical world, while there might be some good, there must also be considerable evil and brutality; therefore God must agree to wink at a reasonable modicum of wickedness. Wars and a minimum of chicanery must be permitted, though the party of the second part agreed...
Hanson W. Baldwin, most temperate of military commentators and an Annapolis graduate himself, let go a full salvo at the Navy. It hit where it hurt: smack on the Navy's big E (for efficiency...
...Baldwin's serious charge: the Bureau of Ordnance is clogged by inertia and inefficiency, specifically in the development of naval mines and torpedoes; the Navy itself countenances inefficiency in high ranks, has done nothing to rid its command of deadwood. His invidious comparison: the Army...
Beyond mines and torpedoes, wrote Baldwin in the New York Times this week, naval shells are not all they might be. And if U.S. ships have the best anti-aircraft armament in the world, not all the credit goes to the "Potomac Gun Club," as Baldwin calls "the little clique of high officers who had been prominent in the Bureau of Ordnance...