Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...President Hoover's method of approach to this problem there is no sign that he is conscious of attacking the problem from a new point of view; indeed, I am quite sure he has no such consciousness, nor any other from of self-consciousness about his relation to it. Yet a student examining the steps taken by the President and the comparatively small number of his public utterances on this subject can find evidence of what is in fact the case, namely, a man with scientific and engineering training approaching the problem of increasing the assurance of peace; a mind...
Evidence of this scientific approach is to be found in the passages of Mr. Hoover's Armistice Day speech which treat of the nature of peace. His treatment is not direct, for he is not aware that he is making a new definition of peace, or any definition of it. His treatment is allusive; his mind is expressing itself on a different aspect of the subject. Between the lines, however, one can recognize a conception unlike the one ordinarily in the minds of statesmen, and certainly differentiated from the average man's conception. Mr. Hoover's conception, by the very...
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...conception underlying Mr. Hoover's approach (I quote the words from his speech of November 11), "peace is not a static thing." It is a dynamic thing, having sometimes greater momentum, sometimes less; sometimes it is more capable of matching the forces making for war, sometimes less. Peace is at once a resultant of forces and itself a force. Being a force, it permits no Nirvana-like rest to those who enjoy it or cherish it, or are responsible for it; it must be continuously fed, from time to time stimulated; must at all times be the object or fostering...
That a statesman's approach to the problem of peace and war is qualified, beneficially or otherwise as may be, by his individual experience, is illustrated by Mr. Hoover's reference to freedom of the seas in his Armistice Day speech. For what is commonly meant by freedom of the seas, Mr. Hoover has approval, as most statesmen have. On one point, within the broader field he is specific, and his being specific arises both from his habit of thinking in terms of forces and from his direct experience with food during the Great...