Power for defense: III — The utility view

ANY speaker who attempted to predict even the immediate future with reference to almost any angle of the war program would be exceedingly bold and foolish, and any statement of current facts would be quite likely to be relatively useless within a short time of utterance. The one thing of which we can be reasonably sure is that the pattern of our war program will be subject to many sudden and extensive changes frustrating forecast and altering the facts. This implies no slightest criticism of the administration of our prewar effort. On the contrary, it is a realistic appraisal of a situation inevitable in a democracy.