Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...however, suggest that the Crimson has editorial responsibility of the same character that any other news organ has. To permit publication of an utterly absurd story of this character can serve no useful purpose. I leave the question of good taste to your own maturer reflections. William Y. Elliott...
...Note: The Crimson apologizes to Professor Elliott for not having printed his letter immediately upon receipt. The first sentences of the last paragraph seemed to the editors to indicate that the letter was not intended for publication...
...letter on this page, Professor William Yandell Elliott of the Government Department refers to his personal views on American neutrality as "extreme" and "incompatible with political responsibility." He is hardly exaggerating. In a recently published article, Elliott answers with a grim negative the question, "Can America Risk Isolation?" His arguments for a more vigorous defense of Uncle Sam's selfish international interests are at once the most compelling and the most treacherous which the American people must resist in their fight to stay out of World...
Professor Elliott's mouth is not mealy with the idealistic mush which can be refuted by a scornful guffaw and reference to the debacle that was the last U. S. attempt to reform European power politics. Because he wants to go to war with a hard-headed conviction that it is to our own materialistic interest to do so -- not starry-eyed and reciting poetry -- Professor Elliott's case for intervention is extremely dangerous. We are making the mistake made by the British at Munich, he says, and if we allow the force to disorder a victory in Europe...
...making the bald-faced assertion that materialistic considerations just don't count in international relations. Professor Elliott's "common-sense" argument may still be phony. If so, it is to be answered on its own ground. What has happened to the proposition that nobody wins a war -- economically or otherwise...