John Boyd Orr Quotes
During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent.
Orr, John Boyd. "Science and Peace." Les Prix Nobel en 1949, Nobel Foundation, 1950.
Canada and the United States were the only allies who could handle WWII economically. In all fairness, there were no battles fought on North American soil and no loss of industrial or agricultural capacity.
Under this great Russian ruler, the nation had begun to industrialize for the first time as a result of her modernization and so the relationship between war and the economy was noticed in Russia for the first time.
To a great extent, the same is true in our modern world.
In the American Civil War, civilian weapons production first became a factor in the outcome of a war. In WWI, it became a significant factor. And in WWII it was THE MAJOR factor when America became the “Arsenal of Democracy”. At one point, a single Ford factory was producing an entire B24 (our heaviest) bomber every single hour on a 24/7 schedule—over 600 every month.
The Germans did not believe the British would send land troops. See {642105}.
At first glance, the reader might think that this quotation in a leading university newspaper was from the Vietnam War era. However, it was argument against U. S. involvement in World War II. There was a very negative reaction to Wilson’s visions and claims for the First World War which never did come to pass that stuck with many.
He was referring to President Jefferson’s inclination to send the military against the Barbary Pirates. They had an incredible extortion racket going in the Mediterranean. If nations would pay them an annual sum each year, they would not attack and seize merchant ships of that country and sell the ships and goods while holding the sailors for ransom. Note that Congress was not very well respected at that time which Jay and most leaders did not think was a good thing, much like in the 21st century.
The War Plan that the Germans had developed--{642092}—had gone awry at the battle of the Marne in late 1914.
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, CH, DSO, MC, FRS, FRSE, styled Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, medical doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, politician, businessman and farmer who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his work as the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
