Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Many of those estimates were cooked up during debate on the conscription bill; many more during the Presidential campaign, when Wendell Willkie was huffing & puffing at unmade Army housing. Said Henry Stimson, with twinkling reassurance: "Estimates beforehand are only estimates. Anybody who has built a house knows that. I think that on the whole the defense work is coming along as well as could be expected...
...Program of Naziism. But the war is not yet won. Do not think that Hitler and Nazidom are going to be easily overthrown. Hitler is certainly going to make another attempt next year-and earlier rather than later-to beat down our resistance by new methods and still greater violence, and so open the way to world domination for the Nazis...
...think that even now we realize the true nature of National Socialism. The triumph of Hitler no doubt grew out of the despair which settled on Central Europe in the long years of war, defeat, inflation, revolutionary propaganda. That was what gave Hitler his chance. But modern National Socialism is the reassertion of the .strongest tradition in German and Prussian history-the belief in the all-powerful military state, creating order and discipline at home by ruthless Gestapo methods and expanding its wealth and power by ruthless conquest abroad. We have almost lost the capacity to understand that...
Hitler, as we have seen, has lost the second round of the war. But we think that he certainly is going to renew the attack on Britain with all his might this winter and spring. Everything else is for him a side show. But if he can destroy Britain, he and his friends will have won the basis of world domination. But this time he is going to concentrate on the sea. He has failed to overwhelm us in the air and we are sure that he will continue to fail, while with your help our power to hit back...
...entire British wartime insurance setup (which already includes Government participation in insurance of all shipping) as it stands today, The Economist of London commented with satisfaction: "As with all other problems of wartime finance, it is wrong to think of compensation for damaged property as a liability that 'the State' . . . can assume or not as it chooses. In wartime the State is the community and the community is the State. . . . The only question is whether [the loss] shall be shared equitably or inequitably. The decision has now been taken to share it equitably...