Word: blueprint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a few hours before, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had announced that the U.S. had, at last, invited Great Britain, Russia and China to discuss a definite blueprint for a world organization to keep the peace. A correspondent asked a question right down Mr. Roosevelt's alley: "Mr. President, when you were Assistant Secretary of the Navy you supported President Wilson on the League of Nations idea. How do you feel about that...
Over the Phone. One point the President seemed anxious to make definite: the blueprint shortly to be discussed by the Big Four was just a first draft. The blueprint was a plan to stop aggression, the President said; it did not envision an organization which you would have to call on whenever some country wanted to build a bridge over a creek...
...Sovereignty." After this offhand reference the press conference came to a close. The blueprint had only been shown the press for a minute. But all the reporters saw plainly enough exactly what the President wanted them to see-the clever use of the word "integrity...
...between idealists and realists, the arguments on U.S. foreign policy (which has recently been the subject of a critical drumfire) weave back & forth, sometimes creating horrendous dissonances, sometimes blending with skilled counterpoint. The idealistic "blueprint" mind is uppermost in Joseph M. Jones's A Modern Foreign Policy for the United States, which consists of three articles originally written for FORTUNE. Mellow realism takes control in Carl L. Becker's How New Will the Better World...
...Jones is realist enough to know that moral desire is not enough to constitute a program, and Professor Becker does not kick the fellow who is ready with the blueprint out his Cornell study window. Different in temper and approach, Becker and Jones can nevertheless be reconciled and harmonized. They want the same thing: a four-power agreement among the Russians, the Chinese, the Americans and the British. They want the agreement to be moral in content. Whether they reckon with the possibility that moral unity may prove to be a pious dream in a world that includes both communists...