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Cassandra may yet be proved right about many things: she has all too often been right before. Still, gloom is not necessarily foresight, and pessimism is not the same as logic...
Your article on the Monroe Doctrine was both interesting and timely. The essence of history has always been foresight, at least in the sense that those who make decisions are aware of the importance of their actions. Monroe has never been completely appreciated as a President; yet his knowledge of his office in terms of precedence and tradition is with us today...
...nothing else, it should stimulate national pride and impress all readers with the intellectual integrity, foresight and fortitude of our forefather leaders, who produced the Declaration, the Constitution and a doctrine of high purpose to put our country onto the path to greatness, on which we now seem to be walking with such faltering steps...
Willys' strength is due partly to the foresight of U.S. Industrialist Edgar Kaiser, who in 1954 took the then-daring decision to enter Brazil's auto market on a partnership basis and personally guaranteed a $42 million Bank of America loan that provided Willys do Brasil's working capital. But it is due as well to enthusiastic Brazilians who decided that they could switch successfully from assembling imported Jeep parts to actual manufacturing of cars. The odds were long. One visiting U.S. auto executive, after studying the shed where Jeeps were being assembled...
...blessing of geography and the pugnacious foresight of Teddy Roosevelt gave the Republic of Panama its No. 1 asset-the Panama Canal. Under a historic treaty, signed in 1903 and renegotiated in 1955, the U.S., which has spent more than $1.5 billion to build and improve the canal, retains control over the vital Atlantic-Pacific seaway "in perpetuity." This point has long galled the nationalistic Panamanians and has touched off anti-American riots throughout Panama...