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There must be very strong and cogent reasons for repudiating these pledges immediately after the election. The repudiation by the British Government after the parliamentary elections five years ago of its pledges to maintain the system of collective security was one of the principal causes of the weakness and ultimate failure of its foreign policy. The loss of confidence on the part of the French people in the good faith of their rulers in recent years contributed greatly to the dismal collapse of the Republic These are the outstanding lessons of recent European politics. They will not be forgotten...
...American people are not unthinking pacifists. They are willing to fight for causes which seem to justify fighting. But it is necessary that the justification be clear and cogent and consistent with American interests. We recognize that there must be a new order of some kind after this war. But the kind of new order for which Americans may be expected to fight is one which can rest on the consent of the peoples who may be concerned. A new balance of power, which can be maintained only by a constant threat of forcible intervention in Europe...
Professor Leach's cogent presentation of the case for militant aid cannot be disposed of so easily as Professor Elliott's childish toy-soldier complex. The Law Professor said that if England is defeated, the Nazis will penetrate South American via the barter route, following up economic with political infiltration, and setting up puppet regimes in state after state until the Panama Canal is threatened and the United States is left helpless, alone, and fatally vulnerable...
...memory. 'The Marriage of Figaro, of course, in its original form was Beaumarchais' virulent satire on the French nobility.' If Da Ponte, Mozart's incompetent librettist, had not emasculated Beaumarchais' play of all its social satire, until it was nothing but lace and frills, we might have a more cogent piece of drama. Even as it is, Mozart's score is so wonderfully expressive and dramatic that of itself it creates vital characters where there are nothing but wooden-heads in the libretto...
...more than tripled his division's budget since 1938. Favorite Arnold statistic: in Roosevelt I's regime, the division had five lawyers, four stenographers. Arnold has 190 lawyers and wants 100 more. For wheedling money from Congress ($1,325,000 for 1941) he has a cogent argument: in the first six months of this year, his division secured judgments returning $2,421,000 in fines to the U. S. Treasury, expects to return some $4,000,000 more. As for consumers, Arnold estimates that his major prosecutions have saved them (in lower prices) some...