Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...goods in, ports to unload them at, she could call on the Empire and the Americas to replace what the Nazis had taken. In the folds of Britain's Pennine Range were 19% of the world's coal, 8% of its iron ore-enough to keep her basic war industries going. She had 10% of the world's steel production. Nazi Germany had still to demonstrate that the great industrial centres of the English Midlands could be bombed into inactivity...
...book relates the disintegration of humanistic Christianity to the world's social woes. "When we consider the frightful panorama of the nations," sighs Maritain, "we feel . . . that spirit is humiliated today in an extraordinarily profound manner." Medieval philosophy sought to alleviate inhumanity and injustice by establishing a basic principle of "a love which fixes the centre of [man's] life infinitely above the world and temporal history." But in the last 400 years philosophers have dropped their eyes from God, fixed them on man. Three influences are largely to blame...
...constitutes random shooting from the hip. If the members of the group do have such a policy, but are keeping it under their Homburgs, then they are guilty of the kind of opportunism usually associated with politicians rather than professors. Talk of morale and unity does not answer one basic question: When the time is ripe, is American defense, Harvard Group, ready to go down the line with the William Allen White Committee in a drive for active intervention...
...have had to make the difficult choice between Lieut. Colonel Hershey and Judge Advocate General Allen W. Gullion, who topped Lewis Hershey in rank if not in knowledge of the draft. Military men also understood that a civilian director was in keeping with U. S. tradition and with a basic conscription principle: to keep the Army as far as possible from civilian draftees until they are actually inducted into service...
...choice there was a sound reason. Winston Churchill himself articulated it. True, he takes chances; he thought up Gallipoli, he endorsed General de Gaulle, he brought some "dangerous" left-wingers into the highest councils of the land. He expressed his basic conservatism as he accepted the leadership: "At all times, according to my lights and throughout the changing scenes through which we are all hurried, I have always faithfully served two public causes which I think stand supreme-maintenance of the enduring greatness of Britain and her Empire and the historical continuity of our island life...