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...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...
...issue was rooted in the man's own obstinate independence. Independence was basic in the Willkie character-a tough, chip-on-the-shoulder independence that ranged from brute stubbornness to a rooted belief in the individual rights of man. Out of it had come the philosophy of his campaign: that the individual is greater than the State; that the purpose of Government is to make men free, since only free men will be able to build a productive and prosperous society. At Elwood he had said: "Only the strong can be free and only the productive can be strong...
...come clear. Partisan Willkiemen saw it as a choice between freedom and collectivism; partisan Rooseveltians saw it as an effort by a Wall Street wolf to don New Deal lamb's wool. The temperate saw it, as Columnist Clapper had clearly stated it, as a struggle between two basic philosophies...
...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...