Word: rearguard
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Pacific Policy. All that U. S. diplomacy could do in the Pacific was to wage a rearguard action. Originator of that action was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, who will not want to scuttle it now that he is recalled to the Cabinet (see p. 11). First Mr. Stimson and then his friend Cordell Hull had to use a strategy which was delicate, complex, in the circumstances, reasonably effective. They played as best they could on the enormous respect in which the Japanese people (but not the Japanese rulers) hold U. S. opinion. They denounced...
...kept her honor bright. The Russians would look a lot less potent to the world, but at home Stalin could be made to appear a conquering hero, having won the U. S. S. R.'s first outside fight since its formation. The Germans would again enjoy a solid rearguard of neutrals. And the Allies would again savor the bitter hopelessness of trying to be the moral and political chaperones of a part of the world they cannot get an Army into...