Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶"Let us not delude ourselves. If we enter the quarrels of Europe during war, we must stay in them in time of peace as well. It is madness to send our soldiers to be killed as we did in the last war if we turn the course of peace...
¶"We must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife. Let us make no mistake about the cost of entering this war. . . . Munitions alone will not be enough. . . . We are likely to lose a million men, possibly several million. . . . And our children will be fortunate if they see...
¶"If we enter fighting for democracy abroad we may end by losing it at home."
A similar finding that there is a war-minded U. S. minority was obtained last week by a Gallup poll. Question: "If it looks within the next few months as if England and France might be defeated, should the United States declare war on Germany and send our troops abroad...
To other union men it was all very interesting: the first tussle between Labor and Government over problems raised by war abroad. Its outcome might give a clue to what Labor can get, or may have to take, if the U. S. should go to war.