Word: warne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With his habitual air of grumpy wisdom, Herbert Hoover last week summoned up a ghost: the ghost of Fisher Ames (1758-1808). The only living ex-President was making a speech to warn the U.S. against entry into the war. To show how wrought-up earlier interventionists had been, he quoted some of Ames's sentences on Napoleon which sounded exactly like Walter Lippmann's sentences on Hitler. Said Ames: "If Bonaparte prevails [in Europe], we will be his vassals. . . . Britain fights our battles. . . . One single hope of security is the British Navy. ... If Russia is disarmed...
...once that I had given the wrong answer and I began to hedge. ... As he stood there stroking his beard and looking at me I heard the door slam and Herb's voice from down stairs asking where I was. ... I tried to think of a way to warn him of Father's presence . . . but my mind would not work fast enough...
...more. It is a rich, direct, engaging set of personal stories, extremely well told. He was born 67 years ago in Florence, Ala. His Grandma Thumuthis foresaw musical talent in his big ears, but his preacher father, to whom hot music was Satan's own cajolery, used to warn him: "You are trotting down to Hell on a fast horse in a porcupine saddle." The boy broke away and wandered, sounded the depths of dereliction in "that gay capital of the sporting world, St. Louis." He married, became bandmaster of Mahara's Minstrel Men. His story of those...
Hess wanted to urge the British to sue for peace with Germany immediately. He wanted to warn the British that if Russia accepted the German demands, the German military machine was prepared to wage an all-out war on Britain and its Empire, with the probable invasion of the British Isles this summer, at least an all-out destruction of communications, factories, shipping and harbor facilities. He wanted to convince the British that if Russia accepted the German demands, it would result in a virtual fighting alliance between Russia and Germany against the English-speaking and anti-Communistic world...
...more fighting planes would have turned the tide in Greece, and only such vague conclusions to draw as: "It is evident that in strategy there has been on our side no adjustment to the tempo or to the resources of the enemy. . . . I deem it my duty to warn the country that it is only by handling our problems with greater vigor and imagination that we can obtain victory...