Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beyond like Stonehenge. . . . He could make no compromise with the English he called 'Victorian and Costermongery.' Forty years ago he wrote to Doctor Hogarth: 'My main intention was not so much the setting forth of personal wanderings among a people of biblical interest as the ideal endeavour to continue the older tradition of Chaucer and Spenser, resisting to my power the decadence of the English language...
...Russians, our men seem to look upon them as supersoldiers, and men striving for what they consider an ideal form of government for their particular domestic situation. They also realize that Russia will be a leader in economic and technical progress in the postwar world. Their attitude is not that we should fear Russia (as advocated by some), but that we should improve our relations and cooperate with them . . . and Britain for a war-free world of the future...
...three agreed high employment must be the first aim of postwar economic policy. But Laski argued for "production for community consumption . . . [planned] by the State." Machinery-Man Johnston and Ex-Advertising-Man Benton plumped for an American ideal: "the initiative of millions which a free economy generates...
Laski's final barb: "It is marvelous-in a perspiration of passionate excitement Johnston has rediscovered Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom, which dates from 1913." But Johnston sneaked in the last word: "It is not Woodrow Wilson who discovered it; it has been the ideal of man since he crawled out of savagery into civilization . . . and you know...
...Even the Victory ship would not be ideal for peacetime competition. Why not wait, to begin building up a fast peacetime fleet, until the U.S. has time, materials and manpower to build real dreamboats...