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...super-optimist and conclude that [this] is the beginning of the end. It is only another great stride forward in our part of the war. Our great advance guard overseas must be followed by a great main body-or else...
Optimism. General Sir Archibald Wavell reported on his recent inspection trip to Assam and Bengal, the northeastern provinces where a Japanese invasion is threatened when the monsoon rains end in mid-October. Optimist Wavell compared Japan to a boa constrictor which has swallowed a goat and has to have time to digest it. He spoke of retaking Burma. Wavell's optimism may have been regarded by some as a military boost to the United Nations. But there was no cause for optimism in a political situation that, unless remedied, will endanger the United Nations' dealing with Asia...
...Even Optimist Pratt foresees the time when the U.S. reserves of 19 billion barrels will fail. They will not last more than 20 years without new discoveries. Therefore he urges a "truly Good Neighbor Policy" with Latin America since great imports of oil may one day flow to the U.S. from tremendous undiscovered pools in South and Central America...
...frequently expressed criticism of Hopkins has been that he is even more an incorrigible optimist than even Mr. Roosevelt himself, and that it would be better if the President has as his intimate companion a man more inclined to emphasize the dark spots in the war picture...
...education Maude Hutchins has pointedly said: "I am an artist, not an optimist...