Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Must Wait!" The U.S. lacked ships. It lacked aircraft carriers. It lacked essential weapons for troop movements on a real expeditionary scale. It lacked many things which the U.S. would have three months, six months, a year from now. One school of thought pondered these lacks, pondered as well the heavy responsibility of committing men, planes, warships to battles in which losses would be great and chances uncertain. It took no basic lack of the offensive spirit for these burdened men to say (as many in high places did say last week): "We must wait...
...wait-a-while school proposed to build up great forces of men, planes, land arms and ships, then launch drives to fold back the Japanese...
...Wait!" But the Japanese, given six months' grace in the Indies, may be very strongly entrenched. India, Australia, or both may fall. The Japanese may move against Russia's Vladivostok and its bases in Kamchatka, between Alaska and Japan. They may even strike at the U.S. Aleutians, and then toward Alaska. Germany may strike at the great oil and supply centers of the Persian Gulf and the Caucasus, or at western Africa. The enemy was certain to attempt some of these stratagems very soon; in proper conjunction, they might win the war while the Allies prepared...
...many men, these possibilities outweighed the Allies' lacks, added up to a certainty: "We can't wait...
...Caribbean intervention inspired by dollar diplomats. It is a world war in a completely literal sense, and we are losing it. The smug politicians in Washington who confidently assure us that we will take the offensive "late in 1942 or in the spring of 1943" and that we must wait until then, fail to realize that by 1943 our cause may be hopeless. Even if it were impossible to speed up production further, which has by no means been proved, there are other ways to take the offensive than by military action...