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...efficiency, that marked the moves of this war. But as the German-Russian Pact was followed by German-Russian military action in Poland, World War II revealed its great difference: it was a war in which diplomatic moves, propaganda barrages, economic agreements, were planned like military campaigns; in which statesmen acted like Generals and Generals acted like statesmen...
...things which were true were not new"-applies to the strangely confused words which have recently come from Tokyo. The core of the confusion was Japan's relations with Russia. Official statements and private guesses alike were a series of obfuscations, contradictions, flat denials, inconsistencies. Generals belied statesmen, statesmen seemed not to know what generals were doing...
...Premier Molotov soon came back to the big problem: "Nobody could have expected the Polish state would have such impotence . . . collapse is a fact . . . Polish statesmen have revealed their utter bankruptcy...
Last week the U. S. took its place in a world at war. That enormous fact shaped the stratagems of statesmen and soldiers in Europe (see p. 15). It changed the shape of Government in Washington (see p. 11). It stirred and troubled The People, by whose consent alone the U. S. can go all the way to war. Upon no one man but upon all, its awful burden lay. To the man who more than any other can guide the U. S. toward or away from war, it was fascinating and profoundly stimulating. Franklin Roosevelt, man of crises, went...
...often suspected of having an inferiority complex. If they are so afflicted, they seldom betray it in public. Last week, however, Dr. Gordon W. Allport of Harvard, retiring president of the American Psychological Association, declared that as prophets of human behavior psychologists are not in the running with statesmen, lawyers and headwaiters...