Word: selfishnesses
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...Selfish," hissed the undertaker...
...Government Department refers to his personal views on American neutrality as "extreme" and "incompatible with political responsibility." He is hardly exaggerating. In a recently published article, Elliott answers with a grim negative the question, "Can America Risk Isolation?" His arguments for a more vigorous defense of Uncle Sam's selfish international interests are at once the most compelling and the most treacherous which the American people must resist in their fight to stay out of World...
...straight-thinking must reject this calculus of America's selfish interests on another count. Because it utterly neglects moral considerations it can never tell the whole story. Economically, in the Pacific, America may not perhaps be able to risk isolation. But at home, can she risk the destruction of public character, the militarization and regimentation which war will always mean...
When the Act was passed, one of the main talking points of its partisans was the noble, self-sacrificing clause that swept profitable American shipping from the war zones. Many shipping companies lobbied desperately against this provision, but Congress spurned what it considered a mere selfish plea, and proudly passed the cash-and-carry law. But it left up to the President the job of designating the war zones, the areas where U. S. ships must not go. His execution of his duty has not lived up to the high moral stand of the framers of the Act. American ships...
...arguments contains possible weaknesses. Hitler, for example, is an imponderable; his reaction to, and behavior after, a peace settlement, cannot be safely predicted. British resolution to pursue the war to an idealistic conclusion may be suspect, propaganda notwithstanding. If there is a chance for peace, it is to the selfish interest of the United States to capitalize upon it; and for this reason, if for none other, it is the duty of President Roosevelt to attempt a settlement...