Word: obstruction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much depends on U.S. policy. If the U.S. tries to push exports unduly, without importing, through further devaluation of the dollar or by forcing inequitable exchange rates on other nations, she could obstruct the flow of world trade. The U.S. might likewise wreck world trade by raising tariffs or killing reciprocal trade agreements. And only by contributing to world stability can the U.S. avoid the flight of "hot money" capital from country to country such as occurred in the '30s, as war clouds gathered. It was this more than anything else which disorganized the exchanges, and gorged...
Homer, at 14, runs into little which might obstruct his capacity for love. At the telegraph office where he works, the manager is incapable of disliking anything, and the operator, Grogan, soaks away in whiskey the sadness of the messages he gives & takes. Homer's history teacher talks to him with a democratic wisdom and kindness which, if it were true of teaching in general, would long ago have left nations incapable of war. On the job, to be sure, Homer has to carry messages of death in war to mothers in the town, and in these more complicated...
...armies of non-violent non-cooperators might be a considerable obstacle. Gandhi's policy is anything but pacifism. It is organized mass resistance whose nearest U.S. equivalent is the sit-down strike. Gandhi's followers would obstruct Japan by refusing the invader their labor; they would not work in factories, run trains, operate telephones or telegraphs, draw water or grow crops for Japan. If Japan killed them for their resistance, it would not help Japan. And followers of Gandhi have sometimes proved their willingness to die-in front of streetcars or police, or in hunger strikes-for their...
Only three days ago, the Committee, is an advertisement in the CRIMSON, urged "all measures necessary to defeat Japan," reiterating that "We shall continue to obstruct to the best of our ability every move in the direction of further involvement in European military affairs...
...warned last night: "Remember always that Germany and Italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the United States at this moment, just as much as they consider themselves at war with Britain and Russia." The Committee, however, has announced: "We shall continue to obstruct to the best of our ability every move in the direction of further involvement in European affairs." Isolationism dies hard. Let us hope that its demise will come soon enough not to obstruct seriously our present war effort...