Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flotilla but not of the Thetis. Before he knew that help was at hand he had volunteered to take his chances getting out of the dangerously tilted escape chamber. He and six others, with messages of the submarine's plight strapped to their wrists, were to act as human marker buoys, dead or alive. Of the seven, only Captain Oram and three others reached the surface. He was surprised to find the Brazen standing by. That news was also flashed ashore...
What is the prospect of the war-not in terms of human, political or economic suffering-but in terms of its military factors from which all other consequences will spring? No man can write its history beforehand. Yet an outline for its history has already been laid down in the armies and the armaments of Europe...
...least of the unknowns are the imponderables of strategy and tactics. Wars are fought by human beings as well as by machines, and, as Napoleon suggested, an army of lions that is led by a lamb can be beaten by an army of lambs under the leadership of a lion. Failure of leadership lost the World War for Germany at the outset when a timid High Command failed to keep the strength of its right wing up to the plan of Alfred von Schlieffen on the famed swing through Belgium. Conversely, the Japanese capitalized on brilliant chance-taking when they...
...easy victory for either the stronger or the weaker military machine. A bad blunder on one side can turn it into disastrous defeat. Bad blunders on both sides-such as there were in the last war and are in most wars -can turn it into a military stalemate, another human holocaust, a war of economic attrition, with no victor anywhere...
...take into account the nature of man. I believe that fundamental, biological inequality is a fact of nature. I also believe that the instinct to preserve society is one of the highest sublimations of the erotic instinct plus reason and intelligence. The democratic idea, of the value of every human soul and the right of every human being to protect his own interests in so far as they do not too drastically infringe upon the interests of others, is not in the least incompatible with the aristocratic conception, provided the latter is removed from the field of privilege. A good...