Word: leached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marking the one hundredth birthday of the world-famous jurist, the book will include a biography and criticism by Owen Roberts, Associate Justice of the Court; an article entitled "A Secretary Looks at Holmes" by W. Barton Leach '21, professor of Law; and a critical essay "The Student Views Holmes" by Robert F. Magill 3L. The dedication itself was written by present Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes...
...last night's Militant Aid to Britain meeting Professor Barton Leach, in delivering by far the ablest speech of the evening, called for "serious, thoughtful discussion" of America's foreign policy. Incongruously, he was followed on the platform by Professor William Y. Elliott, who pulled every oratorical trick out of his capacious bag in an impassioned emotional appeal to the he-man, red-blooded spirit of his audience...
Professor Leach's cogent presentation of the case for militant aid cannot be disposed of so easily as Professor Elliott's childish toy-soldier complex. The Law Professor said that if England is defeated, the Nazis will penetrate South American via the barter route, following up economic with political infiltration, and setting up puppet regimes in state after state until the Panama Canal is threatened and the United States is left helpless, alone, and fatally vulnerable...
Nazi penetration of Latin America is a predictable certainty, according to Professor Leach. But another Harvard bigwig, Professor Alvin Hansen, is not so pessimistic. In an article in the October issue of Foreign Affairs the noted economist states that "an economic bloc consisting of the United States and all the countries in areas A and B"-that is, all Latin American nations except the five southernmost ones-"would have a solid foundation in the economic self-interest of all the countries involved. If it should be deemed desirable to include this entire area within in a single customs union...
...Professor Hansen is right and his conclusion is amply buttressed with statistics the Leach-Conant line is knocked into a cocked hat. There is no reason why South America must, for economic reasons, fall prey to the Nazis. As Hansen points out, "The Western Hemisphere contains within itself all the essential materials men need for enjoying a higher standard of living than any so far attained." Going to war now just to keep Hitler out of South America is from the standpoint of national defense totally unnecessary. There's more than one way to skin...