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...stubborn Argentine military Government was still coddling the Nazis in its midst...
...fixed idea on the importance of aviation won him few friends among the top brass. To his seniors on the quarterdeck he was a baleful-looking, bulldog-stubborn revolutionist, a man to be viewed with suspicion...
...N.A.M., to the average thinking person, I would say, means something stubborn and reactionary and obstructionist. Even when it's right, it always seems to be right for the wrong reason. In an argument . . . the opposition [to N.A.M] uses facts and logic even if it's bad logic, and your N.A.M. spokesman gets up and begins to talk about Bolshevism, the American Way, and the evil forces that are out to ruin the country; and all that old-style . . . hogwash goes out with the imprint of the N.A.M. and the apparent sanction of American industry...
Richardson went on arguing, with stubborn formality: "Mr. President, I still do not believe it . . . I know that our fleet is disadvantageous disposed for preparing for, or initiating war operations...
...Stubborn Men. There was silence. Then the President responded to his instinct for allowing other men the chance to save face when he opposed them. He could be convinced about bringing the fleet back, he said. But only, he added, "if I can be given a good statement which will convince the American people and the Japanese that ... we are not stepping backward." The Admiral asked a blunt question: "Are we going to enter the war?" "Not," said the President calmly, "if the Japs attack Thailand [Siam], the Kra Isthmus or the Dutch East Indies...