I am talking, of course, about World War Two . . . The public official who made those unfortunate remarks belonged to one of our Allies. But there were many in the United States who had echoed the same sentiments for the same reasons. Today, we face a situation not to much unlike the past. There is no longer a threat of global war.
Freedom seems secure.
And like their predecessors, some people think they can predict the future. I don't claim to predict the future. And I am not, by training, a professional historian. But I do know what history teaches. In a high-tech world .