Word: hopelessness
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Lewis, a jolly, articulate man in his prime, retired as the head of Northwestern University's chemistry department in 1924. To the last he predicted that Germany would use gas when it finally got into a hopeless situation. Said he: "Poison gas has lost two of its sources of value-the element of surprise and the element of use against defenseless troops...
...Hope. The situation is not hopeless. Every Navy man in Washington knows the solution: convoys plus air cover. If every Allied cargo carrier is convoyed, most naval experts agree the U-boat can be licked. Submarines have abandoned areas where heavy convoys operate, especially when coastal air patrols function with the naval escorts...
...world's ills fails because of its faulty diagnosis and its naive medication. Wars arise from basic instabilities in men's attempts to satisfy their wants, psychological as well as material. Merely setting up a new super-state, or putting sharp teeth in a thoroughly dead corpse, are hopeless. The "post-war world," if it is to get anywhere, must attack specific problems on a broad scale. Details of organization, beyond the initial agreement to attack the seats of infection, will take care of themselves...
...last week the greatest of all parliaments was in a hopeless muddle. Senators and Representatives, wearied by the terrible grind, their tempers frayed from working at cross-purposes, their distaste for Washington mounting, had gone home in droves. The House could not raise a quorum. The Senate witnessed the shoddy spectacle of two one-man filibusters. Early in the week Missouri's mulish Bennett Champ Clark tied up business for two days, finally forced the Mexican claims bill back into conference...
...spent considerable time trying to discover the reason for the enemy's fanatical refusal to surrender, even when the individual's position is entirely hopeless," said CBS's roly-poly Correspondent William J. Dunn Jr. "Undoubtedly religious teachings about the glories of dying in battle provide a contributing factor, but Americans who have talked to Japanese prisoners believe the prime reason for their preference for death, suicidal if necessary, is abject terror over the possibility of torture by Allied soldiers." One prisoner, groveling at the feet of his captors, begged to be shot rather than tortured. Convinced...