Word: wilsonianism
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Here & there the rich harmony of approval for the Wilsonian idealism of the Points ran into discord. In the London Times, Britain's retired Diplomatic Adviser, Baron Vansittart of Denham, snorted: "His Majesty's Government did well to promise the restoration of France. But not this [Vichy] France. . . . It is useless to disguise the strength of British feeling against it. This France, His Majesty's Government cannot restore and it would be better for them to say so forthright and forthwith...
...that Attorney General Jackson would not go to the Court unless he went as Chief Justice, but last week there was no mistaking Robert Jackson's elation. Chief reservation about him was that (as his intemperate campaign speeches revealed) he lacked the judicial temperament. A Democrat, a mild Wilsonian radical, Robert Jackson was the foremost legal strategist of the New Deal, who had carried out a welter of partisan tasks for the President. But it was agreed that he was mellowing, and it was considered likely that the Court would have as much influence...
...backed it up with a threat to take over recalcitrant companies, withdraw draft exemptions from stubborn workers. In two instances the U. S. Government actually took over corporations (the telegraph companies, Smith & Wesson). On one occasion Wilson sent the organized machinists of Bridgeport scuttling back to their jobs with Wilsonian words that Mr. Roosevelt may have pondered: "I desire that you return to work. ... If you refuse, each of you will be barred from employment in any war industry in the community in which the strike occurs for a period of one year . . . and the draft boards will be instructed...
Thus Roosevelt faced a Brobdingnagian chore. He must now win back to his side not a mere electoral majority but a working majority-a far larger number-of the country's citizens. In these inflamed times it was a task for a leader of Lincolnian humility, Wilsonian morality, and the clear, direct leadership of George Washington. Only the truth would persuade men now; the U. S. was sick to death of half-truths and cloudy words; of Presidential silences; of learning in 1940, from an American White Paper, what had gone on in the White House...
...stop the belligerents, if properly applied. But nothing is done. Before we entered the last World War, says Professor Schlesinger, "through the President's (peace) efforts, the United States was rapidly attaining the moral leadership of the world." Has the President tied us so firmly to the Allies that Wilsonian idealism is beaten before it gets a chance? If he has, the people have a right to know...