Word: foresights
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...embarrassing was this accurate foresight that President Roosevelt roundly berated Witness Andrews, declared that neither the nation nor the White House shared such views. But, if the President now chooses to seize Vichyfrance's Martinique and make it part of the Caribbean defense area he could do no better than to quote General Andrews in justification...
FORTUNE'S deepest assumption is that man can use his foresight to forfend against the evils he faces. The U.S. has learned that modern war reaches into every part of a nation's life, that war changes its mind, changes its habits, takes the pots & pans away from the housewife, the silk stockings from the legs of the pretty girl across the street. But it remains to be seen whether Americans are prepared for the organized effort they must make if FORTUNE'S view of the U.S. task is right. If the editors are right the task...
...dying. He was just able to hear, just able to smile when they gave him the prized Oak Leaf Cluster for his Distinguished Service Medal, with this citation from the Secretary of War: "Adna R. Chaffee, Major General, United States Army. For exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services . . . outstanding foresight, judgment and leadership in organizing and commanding the Armored Force of the Army...
...Casey dictum, and there are many, is that "only people with poor equipment or foresight have adventures." On that principle, he usually makes use of all kinds of bleak understatements in his reports to his home office. One of them from London read: "Hotel just blown out from under me. Filing tomorrow. Regards." For maladroit London censors, Casey was a baffling problem. Effective was his ironic report of an air raid in which he reduced censorship to complete inanity by refusing to mention even the name of the country bombed...
Last week, with a foresight rare in U.S. military history, the army prepared to apply the awful test of war to U.S. officers before they actually go to battle. Said Under Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson (in a letter to House Speaker Sam Rayburn): "It is imperative that during the emergency the Secretary of War have authority to vitalize the active list of the Army, removing therefrom those officers who are unable to stand up under the strain to which they must be subjected if we are to build up a modern Army capable of meeting the demands...