Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, advocated sending American ship convoys to Ireland and suggested a basic revision of "our whole neutrality policy." He also stated that the United States could prevent Japan from entering the war by issuing a "flat and clear warning that we will fight if she attacks Singapore or the Dutch East Indies...
Following are excerpts from the speeches of Assistant Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, Samuel Cross '12, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, and Bruce C. Hopper '18, associate professor of Government at the meeting of the alumni Saturday...
...last night's Militant Aid to Britain meeting Professor Barton Leach, in delivering by far the ablest speech of the evening, called for "serious, thoughtful discussion" of America's foreign policy. Incongruously, he was followed on the platform by Professor William Y. Elliott, who pulled every oratorical trick out of his capacious bag in an impassioned emotional appeal to the he-man, red-blooded spirit of his audience...
Professor Elliott neatly disposed of the possibility that if England is to be saved, American troops may have to be sent to join the British in the fight against Hitler. He boasted that he had lived through the last war, and had found it "not much worse than the traffic in Harvard Square." And he added that in modern war, the soldiers apparently have a pretty exciting time, while the civilians are the real sufferers...
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...