Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fast, tough mind. Wendell Lewis Willkie, 48, product of an Indiana Main Street and New York's Wall Street, was in town. The Convention had not invited him; the Convention wished he were anywhere else. On that dark Sunday afternoon Wendell Willkie was already a political phenomenon without parallel or precedent, a new face, a new force, something powerful and strange cast...
...boost yet-on U. S. initiative. Ambassador to Italy William Phillips, on orders from the White House, offered Mussolini a desperate bribe to stay out of the war: a treaty of friendship, a trade agreement, new credits. Such appeasement must have flattered Il Duce. Nevertheless, Il Duce refused. Meanwhile parallel British appeasement feelers, equally fruitless, resulted in a temporary easing of contraband inspection of Italian vessels passing Gibraltar. Last week Italy made hay while the sun still shone...
...week's end, M. Reynaud paid Mr. Churchill a visit in London and presently a new Chief of the British Imperial Staff was announced, replacing General Sir Edmund Ironside, who was put in charge of home defense (see p. 27). In a switch strategically parallel to the Weygand-for-Gamelin move, Mr. Churchill called on General Sir John Greer Dill, who was brought home from his command of the B. E. F. First Corps in France in April to be Sir Edmund's Vice Chief and standin. Sir John, 58 and Irish, is accounted the British Army...
...Parallel between 1914 and 1940 should not, however, make pessimists of us. In 1914 the ideals of the military scientists won out simply because undergraduates were not strong enough or unified enough to make their ideals prevail. It seems to me that we have much more militant peace organizations, and that we have learned something from the failure of 1914-17. Nevertheless, it is obvious that if we are going to put our lessons into practice we will have to work quickly. We will have to meet the militarists and the interventionists with a flood of facts and a solid...
Most discussed war-financing nostrum in Britain today is John Maynard Keynes's plan for forcing all Britons above the subsistence line to invest fixed percentages of their income in blocked savings accounts. Last week financial men could remind themselves that the Keynes plan has a faint parallel in the U. S. Released were current figures on Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s own public thrift campaign: U. S. Savings Bonds. Voluntary and not for war, the Morgenthau "baby bonds" nevertheless permit the "ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished" third of the U. S. population to share a nation...