The Patient Is Sinking While The Doctors

The Choice Is Between Acting With Energy Or Losing By Default.

There Has Been Considerable Comment Over The Awarding Of The Nobel Peace Prize To A Soldier. I Am Afraid This Does Not Seem As Remarkable To Me As It Quite Evidently Appears To Others. I Know A Great Deal Of The Horrors And Tragedies Of War. ... The Cost Of War In Human Lives Is Constantly Spread Before Me, Written Neatly In Many Ledgers Whose Columns Are Gravestones. I Am Deeply Moved To Find Some Means Or Method Of Avoiding Another Calamity Of War.

An Essential Part Of Any Successful Action On The Part Of The United States Is An Understanding On The Part Of The People Of America Of The Character Of The Problem And The Remedies To Be Applied. ... It Is Virtually Impossible At This Distance Merely By Reading, Or Listening, Or Even Seeing Photographs Or Motion Pictures, To Grasp At All The Real Significance Of The Situation. And Yet The Whole World Of The Future Hangs On A Proper Judgment.

The United States Should Do Whatever It Is Able To Do To Assist In The Return Of Normal Economic Health In The World, Without Which There Can Be No Political Stability And No Assured Peace.

I Must Have Assistants Who Will Solve Their Own Problems And Tell Me Later What They've Done.