Word: globalitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China if we utilized the full power of the U.S. Air Force . . . But... in my opinion we cannot afford to ... peck at the periphery as long as we have a shoestring Air Force . . . The fact is that the U.S. is operating a shoestring Air Force in view of its global responsibilities...
...course it's easier for these domestic industries to lobby for tariff hikes than to lower production costs or adapt their products to changes in consumer taste. But this is no reason why the United States should continue to protect small sectors of the economy at the sacrifice of global objectives. Playing Protection at the domestic consumer's expense is bad enough, but it is inexcusable to do so at the expense of the free world's security...
...ironies in the U.S. position, as Historian Niebuhr sees them, are sad and deep. There is "the irony of an age of science producing global and atomic conflicts and an age of reason culminating in a life-and-death struggle between two forms of 'scientific' politics . . . We are drawn into a situation where the paradise of our domestic security is suspended in a hell of global insecurity . . . Our own nation . . . is less potent to do what it wants in the hour of its greatest strength than it was in the.days of its infancy." Connecting all of these incongruities...
Back to Paperclip. Confronted with this background, and asked what Consultant Schreiber was doing to advance Global Preventive Medicine, the Air Force stammered out some seemingly contradictory statements: 1) he was working merely on unclassified matters, 2) the project was classified confidential and could not be discussed. The Air Force said it knew nothing of these echoes of Nürnberg when it engaged Schreiber, and had no good way of sifting them...
...Editors, Minneapolis Tribune Chief Editorial Writer Carroll Binder announced bluntly: "This is a report on a project launched by this society which has boomeranged." The project: a U.N. newsgathering treaty that would free the press of the world from censorship and other restrictions (TIME, May 23, 1949). As the global-minded U.S. delegate to the U.N.'s conferences on freedom of information, 56-year-old Editorialist Binder knew just what went wrong. Spurred on by the most high-minded intentions, the U.S. had marched starry-eyed into the jaws of a trap that it set itself...