Word: prudently
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...Allied high commands were a trifle worried last week: the people and press of the U.S. and Britain were just too damned happy. Prudent military thought that the headlines would have been nearer the mark if they had put less emphasis on bombing or on Winston Churchill's references to approaching amphibious operations, more on his sobering words: "I shall make no predictions. . . . We are prepared to win this war by hard fighting, and if necessary by hard fighting alone...
...Struggle for Airways in Latin America is a prudent, expensive, handsome, 245-page, 9-by-11-in. atlas in green cloth binding that documents his case and illustrates his meaning. It is a record rather than a report. Reviewing a few years of progress, from nothing to continent-girdling order, it is as spare as the pioneers' records of their land titles and family connections...
Abandoned by his friends, deserted by his more powerful ministers, scorned by his people, Ramon Castillo had come to the end of the road called Prudent Neutrality. There was only one course: resign. This Castillo did at the headquarters of the 7th Infantry. He had gained office through accident and stayed in office through fraud. Now he turned over the reigns of government to a military junta which did not seem to know where it was going but at least was aware that prudence in 1943 means cooperation with the United Nations...
...enormous help in the devil's sleight of hand is the present vogue of The Historical Point of View. "The Enemy loves platitudes. Of a proposed course of action He wants men, so far as I can see, to ask very simple questions; is it righteous? is it prudent? is it possible? Now if we can keep men asking 'Is it in accordance with the general movement of our time? Is it progressive or reactionary? Is this the way that History is going?' they will neglect the relevant questions...
...newly elected Chesapeake & Ohio Railway President Carl Elbridge Newton, who is a friend of Robert Ralph Young (TIME, Dec. 28), another booster of competitive bidding, and whose road owns 2% of Erie's common stock. Roared he: "I insist the Erie buy its financing on the same prudent basis as it buys its railroad equipment-that is, to benefit its stockholders rather than any selected seller. . . ." Warned Railroader Newton: "I would be reluctant to bring legal action . . . [but] I shall protect the interests...