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There was little in the document that informed men did not know, yet the cumulative effect of its pages was to make the efforts of U.S. diplomacy seem much more real and wise in retrospect than they had often seemed in prospect. Whoever had been caught napping on December 7, 1941, it was not Cordell Hull or ex-Ambassador Joseph C. Grew. Said the measured New York Times: "It is hard to see how our government could have done more, in honor, than it did to stave off the worldwide...
...compromise worked as well as Washington hoped last week, men might soon have trouble saying exactly what the fight was even about. In retrospect, it may turn out to have been a quarrel over semantics...
...even in the retrospect of history, exactly when one political movement dies and another is born. But anyone who looked last week could see that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was sick, with ailments that could not lightly be thrown...
Speaking as one of the millions of hard-of-hearing folk in this land I wish that in your admirable review of Harriet Martineau's Retrospect of Western Travel (TIME, Nov. 2) the reviewer had played up more dramatically Harriet's really amazing achievement. This was not writing a lively and realistic description of our infant republic, but rather in spite of serious deafness collecting the facts for it. My lifelong interest in Harriet was inspired by her handicap, for I, too, have been seriously deaf all my life...
...retrospect of the recent traveler in America, the happiest class is clearly that small one of the original abolitionists; men and women wholly devoted to a lofty pursuit, and surrendering for it much that others most prize: and in the retrospect of the traveler through life, the most eminently blessed come forth from among all ranks and orders of men, some being rich and others poor; some illustrious and others obscure; but all having one point of resemblance, that they have not staked their peace on anything so unreal as money or fame...