Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Masefield's conclusion is that Hitler is caught in a dilemma: the eastern offensive cannot be long delayed, but first the Führer must withdraw aircraft from France or Italy, thus giving the R.A.F. even greater supremacy and perhaps making a continental invasion possible...
Democratic Dilemma. Neither does Author de Sales believe that democracy is doomed in its struggle with Communism and Naziism. "Democracy," he says, "is still in a position to absorb many doctrines, such as socialism, without necessarily destroying itself, because it still remains the only mode of life and the only mechanism of society sufficiently broad as far as its philosophical basis is concerned, and sufficiently vague as to its outlines, to encompass a vast number of contradictions." He feels that "democracy is the only form of Government . . . strong enough . . . to avoid the 'grim horrors of revolution...
...Sales is a great admirer of the New Deal. But he states without alarm that "the general trend of the New Deal has been toward socialization and centralization." The question, he says, is not whether democracy can be made to work according to capitalist or socialist formulas: "the dilemma is whether a collectivist society-that is, one founded on our real possibilities of production-can be established without destroying the essential principles upon which democracy rests...
...What De Sales describes is very real. It will continue to be real until he finds a better word than "collectivism" to describe what he means by full use of resources. Most Americans, who think collectivism means socialism and who know that socialism leads to tyranny, will reject the dilemma as he states it. Nor can he sell them on its historical necessity. Americans have a way of taking history into their own hands...
...individual to decide whether he can buy or not. And as far as a luxury goes, it is no more than a few movies. The idea of buying defense stamps as an alternative is fine, though it probably wouldn't produce much for the Government. To solve the present dilemma, some agreement to continue buying corsages, perhaps at reduced prices, should be worked...