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...Give us a logical, coherent, consistent and courageous course to follow-be it 'interventionist' or be it 'isolationist' and we'll follow you through hell and high water, but the present vacillating and unreasoning policies and practices engender in us nothing but the 'defeatist' and 'apathetic' attitudes which your followers in Washington publicly deplore. We'll follow-will you lead?" ROBERT LEIGHTON...
...malady when last week he delivered a lecture in Manhattan on "The Nature and Treatment of Hypertension." Dr. Page, a top-notch high pressure man from Indianapolis, showed that great strides have been taken in his specialty in the short space of seven years. Doctors used to take a defeatist view of hypertension, ascribed it to the "mere ravages of physiologic aging." Treatment consisted mostly in keeping patients relaxed and calm by persuasion and drugs. Now there is something better...
...witnesses were nearly all defeatist about British chances or fearful of provoking Hitler. Two predicted civil war if the U. S. went to war for England. One, Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison, editor of The Christian Century, most vigorously intellectual Protestant religious magazine, and a leading third-term opponent, said that the bill was a "blueprint for dictatorship," equivalent to a declaration of war; accused the President of scaring the people, and declared: "Such a war will not be America's war. It will be the President's war. America has never fought a President...
...duty of the U. S. : to "show the world a nation clear in purpose, united in action, and sacrificial in spirit. The influence of that example upon suffering humanity everywhere will be more power ful than the combined armies of the Axis." The familiar cries of defeatist, appeaser, isolationist, rose shrilly, just as the cries of warmonger had risen after the testimony of the Cabinet officers the week before. Defenders of the bill-Dorothy Thompson. William Bullitt, Major Gen eral John F. O'Ryan-came in with more arguments, all familiar. Ex-Ambassador Bullitt pointed to one difficulty...
...seen little to admire. Dolefully they clumped together in circles like the New Republic and The Nation. Substituting a good deal of intellectual inbreeding for organic contact with U. S. life, they developed a curious cultural provincialism. The Depression came to them as a refreshing change. Fundamentally skeptical, maladjusted, defeatist, the intellectuals felt thoroughly at home in the chaos and misery of the '30s. Fundamentally benevolent and humane, they loved their fellow countrymen in distress far more than they could ever love them in prosperity. And they particularly enjoyed life when applause began to greet their berating...