Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from a desperate gamble with her democracy, a gamble in which the cards are inevitably stacked against her if she intervenes in Europe, and in which she has some chance of winning if she turns her energy to the betterment of her own part of the world. The latter is the real desideratum. That--and that alone--is worth fighting...
...first World War and are now doing their best to enroll us in the current edition. His conclusion rests on a tenuous thread of logic running from pro-Allied speeches by university presidents through the control of their educational institutions by the business community to the latter's economic stake in an Allied victory. Essentially, his argument is that the United States went to war in 1917 and will go again to protect and enrich big business. In so arguing Mr. Sargent has used questionable logic to support a desirable end--non-intervention...
This entire controversy reminds one very much of the following story: The automobile of a tourist motoring through Poland became stalled; he sent to the nearest town for a mechanic. The latter, on arriving, looked over the engine, gave it one hit with his hammer, whereupon it functioned perfectly. In response to the query as to what was due him, he asked ten zloty, to which the motorist said: "Surely not ten zloty for giving the car one hit with the hammer!" "Oh, no!" replied the mechanic "one zloty for hitting the motor, and nine zloty for knowing where...
Died. General Sir Bindon Blood, 97, called "The Father of the British Army," who fought in seven campaigns, was 80 years on the Army list; of old age; in London. Once a famed hunter of tigers (his record: 57), in his latter days he liked to go to the zoo, exchange glares with them...
...sure and immediate horrors and costs of war, to ourselves as individuals and to our nation as a social democracy, and on the other hand, peace now but the possibility of a German victory and some future threat to the United States as a result, we choose the latter alternative. And we think that here stands with us the vast army of Americans...