Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your generation that will determine, not in middle life but tomorrow, next year, or at the latest within a few brief years, whether ... the faults you visualize in democracy, and the ruthlessness you ignore in totalitarianism shall paralyze your will to defend the one and to defeat the other...
...corner of the Auditorium, a physician who studies Indian medicine had brought along a billowing squaw, complete in deerskin dress and feathered crown. In the rear, a couple of muscular orthopedists patiently kneaded the spines of lopsided patients, naked except for brief trunks. Other side shows showed how to resuscitate the newborn, diagnose female sterility, guard the health of airplane pilots, bandage broken legs, banish early syphilis in five days...
Both these books are strong medicine for current U.S. hot & cold chills of fatalism, complacency, despondency, uncertainty, overconfidence. Economist-Historian Earle, in a brief outline of U.S. foreign policy, helps bring fuzzy notions of British-American relations into proper focus with the aid of a few forgotten historical facts. Publisher Luce asks Americans to live up to their responsibilities as citizens of the world's No. 1 power...
...such quotations that Earle seeks to show present day isolationists that their arguments are without basis from the standpoint of American history. In a brief but forceful review of our diplomatic and political treatment of European affairs, he demonstrates how we have been dependent on four factors for our isolation. "Almost from the beginning it was recognized that our security depended not merely upon relative geographical remoteness, but equally upon the European balance of power, the maintenance of the British Navy, and the existence of a universal concept of international order...
This book cannot fail to be disconcerting to all isolationists, and provides an arsenal of historical munition in favor of the interventionist point of view. Brief though it is, "Against This Torrent" is a forceful argument against "the wave of the future." As a refreshing departure from the recent flood of dollar books that are all form and no substance, this volume should be read by everyone who is interested in the future of our nation...