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Myopic warriors, fighting only to win the immediate engagement, usually find when the battle smoke clears that theirs is a hollow triumph because no one has made sane preparation for the peace. Isolationists like. Chicago's Hutchins hold on this basis that America is not mentally mature enough to make...
Other signers: Herbert Hoover; Felix Muskett Morley, for three years a League of Nations employe, until recently editor of the Washington Post, now president of Haverford College; Joshua Reuben Clark, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to Mexico, and now, in effect, business manager of Mormon affairs with vast powers throughout...
> At the direction of University of Chicago President Robert Maynard Hutchins, the America First Committee employed the Samuel E. Gill Co. of New York City to get answers to six questions devised by isolationists. Basic question: "Do you believe that the United States should enter the war as an active...
From these and other answers Isolationist Hutchins concluded: the U.S. should lead the way toward mediating between Germany and Britain in the war. But to his question: "Do you believe that the United States should offer to mediate between England and Germany?" only 27.4% had answered "Yes." Conning all these...
Robert Maynard Hutchins (at University of Chicago): "When we talk about freedom, we usually mean freedom from something. . . . Freedom of the press is freedom from censorship. ... A free world is simply a world free from Hitler. But freedom must be something more than a vacant stare. . . . When we get political...