Word: reston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Starting from the premise that "we shall lose the war unless we clear out of our minds several fundamental illusions which are minimizing our effort," James Reston's "Prelude to Victory" strikes at the manifold weaknesses of the American public's participation in the war. Essentially a study of morale, the book is seldom guilty of the looseness implied by its subject, for Reston attacks sloppy thinking only where he can prove it clearly responsible for specific failures in the war effort...
...twenty-five years are blamed upon the general public, who have forced their government to continue "sparring with the situation until the American people are ready to face the facts--the bare distasteful facts." This tendency to evade the issue and to seek the easy way out is, for Reston, the greatest threat to a United Nation victory, and he devotes the book to dispelling this threat. Facts contained in chapters like "The Illusion that Time and Money Will Save Us" are ably used to dissipate mental mists, and the reader, given easily digestible figures on shipping losses...
...Washington last week, Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish left behind in London a new Office of War Information branch, headed by onetime Banker James Paul Warburg. It has four functions: 1) supplying U.S. information to Britons, a job to be directed by able, young New York Timesman James B. Reston who spent four years in England covering British affairs; 2) conducting political (i.e., propaganda) warfare in enemy countries; 3) rebroadcasting U.S. short-wave programs from Britain; 4) improving relations between U.S. soldiers and Britons...
Root of present difficulties is in the phrase insisted on by the British Cabinet -"with due respect for their existing obligations." The phrase, as New York Timesman. James B. Reston wrote: ". . . has troubled those officials who believe that a real economic peace can be obtained only if all the powerful nations of the world are prepared to reconsider their 'existing obligations...