Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some Cannon and some cannot have wisdom," the Bage murmured sleepily, but you, my friend, are as dumb a Kluchas I have ever seen...
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...
...CRIMSON published an editorial last Tuesday declaring that they had suffered a sea-change on the question of America's entrance into war--that after several years of non-interventionist sympathies they had at last seen the wisdom (or the inevitability) of intervention. The Great Awakening, one is led to believe, was brought about by recent events at home and aboard, with the subsequent realization that "a policy of aiding England to which the "short of war" reservation was tacked . . . never could have worked...
...only a poor Presbyterian pastor and none too familiar with Oliver W. Gilpin's Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Frankly I do agree with him that I too prefer to have the President "blessed" rather than merely given "wisdom." We Presbyterians ask that God may "look (upon him) with favor . . . imbue (him) with the spirit of wisdom, goodness, and truth...
Last week the Foreign Policy Association backed up the Administration's stand, declared: "Tokyo has been able to force Britain and the U.S. to sell oil by threatening to strike at the East Indies if an embargo is applied. Washington and London agree on the wisdom of propitiating the Japanese by furnishing them with sufficient oil to meet or more than meet their needs...