Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...national defense program has its roots in hysteria and will have its fruits in war. The present European conflict has been built up to such a degree that now it has assumed in the eyes of America the appearance of the greatest crisis in the past 2,000 years. The country has been told insistently that a German victory will threaten our way of life. For years we have been educated to look upon Germany as anti-Christian and uncivilized, bent on world domination. We have come to see the situation too much in black and white, and are thus...
Those who advocate such "preparedness" feel they are being wholly objective, weighing coolly the threat of a German victory, and acting only in our best military interest. Most of them do not stop to think that by backing such a program, by crying helplessly that there is nothing else to be done, they are taking one of the most familiar and predictable steps toward war. If a historian were to draw a hypothetical picture of a nation being dragged into war, a defense program like ours and the state of mind of those who are backing it would certainly figure...
Actually, this defense program is only an extension of the false idea that we can sit back and ignore Europe. Nothing makes this clearer than the way isolationists are now rushing into the arms of those conservative military experts who say this hemisphere can easily be defended by a very limited defense program. The old cry was "3,000 miles of ocean will make us safe." Now it is "50,000 planes will make us safe." Neither one will do it. We cannot live in peace and security behind planes any more than behind water if the war is allowed...
...retreat from strict neutrality has angered both sides, one because we profess moral sympathy but balk at active aid, the other because we sit behind a Neutrality Act hurling curses and threats. It is impossible to get it when we have given up hope and resorted to a huge program of preparedness...
...Junior League has a spineless program; it overrates the importance of its 35,000 membership ("More than that number attend a Joe Louis fight"); the League is nothing but a prep school for the Daughters of the American Revolution; Leaguers play around the fringes of social work; they spend at one party what many a family lives on for a whole year; they could be criticized for not cleaning up politics, for not working for birth control, for not admitting Negroes as members; he never saw them anywhere except on Florida beaches or at dog shows...